Job 11:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven! What can you do? It is deeper than Sheol (the place of the dead)! What can you know?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

Common English Bible

⁸ They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? Deeper than the underworld—what can you know?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ He is higher than heaven, and what will you do? He is deeper than hell, but how will you know?

Job 11:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

Job 11:9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 22:12

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 26:6

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Job 35:5

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Job 37:23

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Job 7:9

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Psalm 103:11

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Psalm 148:13

let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

Psalm 36:6

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

Proverbs 30:4

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Isaiah 55:9

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: