THEOSISGregory the Great
Verse 26. Look, God is great, and we cannot comprehend Him Job 36:26. He mentioned earlier, Look, God is exalted Job 36:22. Now, He reiterates, Look, God is great. When speaking of God, the term 'Look' is used, indicating His presence. The repetition of 'Look' emphasizes that God is present everywhere, implying that He can be known even to those who fail to meditate upon Him. Moreover, it is asserted that He transcends our understanding, the One whom we are told can be perceived by all. Although His presence can be seen, His immense greatness means that we cannot perceive Him through any of our senses. What we understand of His glorious majesty is only that which is beneath Him; the more we believe we grasp His Power, the farther we stray from truly knowing Him.
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Even if our minds are lifted high, the magnificence of His glory surpasses our thoughts. From these experiences, we recognize a mere fragment of Him when we realize we are unworthy to understand Him fully. For the count of His years is unmeasurable Job 36:26. He intended to convey the idea of eternity, referring to the expanse of eternity as 'years.' When we seek to stretch the brevity of time, we combine moments into hours, hours into days, days into months, and months into years. In that moment, He aimed to express something of great length, yet found no suitable way to articulate a longer duration, multiplying God's seasons without enumerating them, stating that the number of His years cannot be counted; this serves to show that human frailty cannot grasp the infinite nature of eternity.
Reach your vision into eternity to see God, as He was at the beginning or how far He stretches. There is no limit above us, for He has no beginning, nor below, for He has no end. All things exist within Him and yet He transcends all, extending beyond without being confined to a certain place. Created things have their limits defined by their very existence, bound by constraints both above and below, originating from nothingness and destined to cease. However, some remarkable entities have gained a unique status, beginning high, yet having no limit beneath, and though they were created, they endure forever. Their eternity differs from the highest eternity, as they have begun to experience eternity. While we observe their vastness as seemingly boundless, when we reflect, we can recognize their origins. In contemplating both their lower and higher aspects, we are often unaware of their full extent but can discern where they commence. Since God embodies a kind of continuous existence in eternity, without a starting point or an endpoint, and devoid of notions such as origin or duration; therefore, it can be stated that the number of His years is beyond reckoning. This count is mentioned as His being is shown to be relentless. Yet, it is declared to be uncountable because it is infinite and unreachable. Thus, we learn that He is acknowledged in the thoughts of humankind: all people perceive Him; and in seeing and marveling at His splendor, we recognize that His years are beyond measure. Now it is important for us to hear about His actions. Therefore: