Job 22:12 “Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how loft…”

Job 22:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

World English Bible

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

American Standard Version

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Geneva Bible 1599

Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

Darby Translation

Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

Young's Literal Translation

Is not God high [in] heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.

Bible in Basic English

Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

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Cross references

“not God”

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Isaiah 66:1 Psalm 115:3 Isaiah 57:15 Psalm 115:16

Ecclesiastes 5:2 · BSB

Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.

Isaiah 66:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

Psalm 115:3 · BSB

Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.

Isaiah 57:15 · BSB

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive th…

Psalm 115:16 · BSB

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.

“the stars”

Psalm 8:3 Psalm 8:4

Psalm 8:3 · BSB

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

Psalm 8:4 · BSB

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Also

Job 11:8

Job 11:8 · BSB

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

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

In context

11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

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