Job 11:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you 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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? He is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Job 11:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God indeed dwell with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!

Job 11:9

Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.

Job 22:12

“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 35:5

Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.

Job 37:23

The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Job 7:9

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

Psalm 103:11

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

Psalm 148:13

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above earth and heaven.

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!

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 Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.