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Job 11:8
8[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
Job 11:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- New International Version (NIV)They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?
- English Standard Version (ESV)It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
- New King James Version (NKJV)They are higher than heaven— what can you do? Deeper than Sheol— what can you know?
Context of Job 11:8
6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that God passeth by [much] of thine iniquity! 7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? [It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know? 9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
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גָּבְהֵ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם מַה־תִּפְעָ֑ל עֲמֻקָּ֥ה מִ֝שְּׁא֗וֹל מַה־תֵּדָֽע׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 11:8
- Job 22:12Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
- Job 35:5Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
- 2 Chronicles 6:18But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
- Psalms 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.
- Psalms 148:13Let them praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above the earth and the heavens.
- Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search out a thing.
- Isaiah 55:9For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- Psalms 139:6O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.
- Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;
- Ephesians 3:18in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what [is] the breadth and length and depth and height;
Commentaries on Job 11:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8It is as high as heaven - High as the heavens, what canst thou work? Deep below sheol, (the invisible world), what canst thou know? Long beyond the earth, and broad beyond the sea, is its measure. These are instances in the immensity of created things, and all out of the reach of human power and knowledge; and if these things are so, how incomprehensible must he be, who designed, created, preserves, and governs the whole! We find the same thought in…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8It is as high as heaven - That is, the knowledge of God; or the subject is as high as heaven. The idea is, that man is incompetent to examine, with accuracy, an object that is as far off as the heavens; and that as the knowledge of God must be of that character, it is vain for him to attempt to investigate it fully. There is an energy in the Hebrew which is lost in our common translation. The Hebrew is abrupt and very emphatic: “The heights of the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-12Verses 7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. It--the "wisdom" of God (Job 11:6). The abruptness of the Hebrew is forcible: "The heights of heaven! What canst thou do" (as to attaining to them with thy gaze, Psa 139:8)? know--namely, of His perfections.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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