Job 26:14

WEB

¹⁴Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

KJV

¹⁴Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

BSB

¹⁴^[+] Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

FBV

¹⁴^[+] This is just a little of all he does—what we hear of him is hardly a whisper, so who can understand his thunderous power?”

Extra References

Isaiah 40:26-29

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking. ²⁷Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”? ²⁸Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable. ²⁹He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Psalms 145:3

³Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

Psalms 139:6

⁶This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Job 11:7-9

⁷“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? ⁸They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol.^[+] What can you know? ⁹Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Romans 11:33

³³Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Job 40:9

⁹Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Job 36:29

²⁹Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?

1 Corinthians 13:9-12

⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part; ¹⁰but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. ¹²For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Psalms 29:3

³The LORD’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters.

Job 4:12

¹²“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.