Job 11:8
[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
In Context
7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Cross References
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.
Psalms 139:6O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.
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.
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;
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 →