Job 11:8
It is high as heaven; what can thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what can thou know?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
In Context
7Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
9The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Cross References
Job 22:12Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 35:5Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Psalms 139:6[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain to it.
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
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.
Ephesians 3:18having been rooted and grounded in love, so that ye may be able to grasp with all the sanctified what is the breadth and length and depth and height,
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →