Job 22:12
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
In Context
11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Cross References
Job 35:5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Psalms 115:3Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:6-15
Job Accused of Various Crimes. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee,… Read the whole commentary →