Job 11:8
They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Majority Standard Bible
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 you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
9Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
Cross References
Job 22:12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Job 35:5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Psalms 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
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.
Ephesians 3:18will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width 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 →