Job 11:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?”
A short, plain-language explanation of Job 11:8 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?”
King James Version · Public Domain“It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Heights of the heavens! --what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! --what knowest thou?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 11:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 6:18But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- Job 22:12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Job 35:5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
- Psalms 103:11For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
- Psalms 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
- Psalms 148:13Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
- Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
- Proverbs 30:4Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!
- Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
- Amos 9:2Though 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 3:18will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
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