Job 11:8 “They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than…”

Job 11:8

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

World English Bible

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

American Standard Version

It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

Geneva Bible 1599

The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it?

Darby Translation

[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

Young's Literal Translation

Heights of the heavens! — what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! — what knowest thou?

Bible in Basic English

They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

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Cross references

“It is as high as heaven”

Job 22:12 Isaiah 55:9 Job 35:5 Psalm 148:13 2 Chronicles 6:18 Psalm 103:11

Job 22:12 · BSB

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Isaiah 55:9 · BSB

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Job 35:5 · BSB

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Psalm 148:13 · BSB

Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.

2 Chronicles 6:18 · BSB

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Psalm 103:11 · BSB

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

“deeper”

Psalm 139:6–8 Job 26:6 Amos 9:2 Ephesians 3:18 Ephesians 3:19

Psalm 139:6–8 · BSB

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Job 26:6 · BSB

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Amos 9:2 · BSB

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

Ephesians 3:18 · BSB

will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

Ephesians 3:19 · BSB

of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

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