Job 26:14
Good News Translation
But these are only hints of his power, only the whispers that we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is?

New Revised Standard Version
These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Contemporary English Version
These things are merely a whisper of God's power at work. How little we would understand if this whisper ever turned into thunder!

New American Bible
Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and what a whisper of a word we hear of him: Who can comprehend the thunder of his power?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

how little

Job 11:7-9 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly? . . .

Psalm 139:6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.

Psalm 145:3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.

Isaiah 40:26-29 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing. . . .

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

1 Corinthians 13:9-12 For we know in part: and we prophesy in part. . . .

the thunder

Job 40:9 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.

Psalm 29:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is upon many waters.

Context
Job: Who Can Understand God's Majesty?
13His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent. 14Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?
Cross References
Job 4:12
Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.

Job 36:29
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

Job 37:4
After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard.

Job 37:5
God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.

Job 42:5
With the hearing of the ear, I have heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

Habakkuk 3:4
His brightness shall be as the light: horns are in his hands: There is his strength hid:

Job 26:13
Top of Page
Top of Page