Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!” Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end.
Behold, these are 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?”
like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,
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