Job 22:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Common English Bible

¹² Isn’t God in the heights of heaven; see how high the topmost stars are?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

Job 22:12 Cross References

Job 11:7

“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

Job 11:8

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

Job 35:5

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

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.

Psalm 115:3

Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools, for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Never be rash with your mouth nor let your heart be quick to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; so what kind of house could you build for me, what sort of place for me to rest?