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These words recall the supreme questions which divide hostile philosophies. Even Christian apologists have maintained that God is inaccessible to human thought, and that our highest knowledge of Him can have only a relative truth. Many who are antagonistic to the. Christian faith maintain that man's knowledge is necessarily limited to the universe of phenomena, and that all attempts to pass beyond it are the result of an ambitious discontent with the eternal limitations of our intellectual power. The words of the text cannot mean that God is absolutely unknown. We know God, and therefore we worship Him; but there is infinitely more to know. His greatness passes beyond the widest limits, not only of our actual knowledge, but of all knowledge possible to us. This truth is pressed upon us in whatever direction thought may travel.

1. Our hearts should be filled with awe when we meet to worship Him.

2. That God is great, and we know Him not, should encourage the largest and freest confidence in His ability and willingness to meet and to satisfy all the exigencies of our personal life.

3. It is the infinite greatness of God — a greatness that can never be defined or exhausted by created thought — which alone enables us to accept calmly, and without dread, the gift of immortality.

4. If this is the strength and joy of those who are conscious that through His infinite mercy their sins are forgiven, and they are restored to the light and blessedness of His love, it is full of terror to all with whom He is not at peace, and who are exposed to His eternal condemnation.

(R. W. Dale, D. D. , LL. D.)

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KJV: Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

WEB: Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.