Job 11:8

In 11 translations

BSB

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

KJV

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?as high…: Heb. the heights of heaven

WEB

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

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

LSV

Heights of the heavens—what [can] you do? Deeper than Sheol—what [can] you know?

YLT

Heights of the heavens! — what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! — what knowest thou?

DBY

[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

DRC

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

GNV

The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it?

JPS

It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than the nether-world; what canst thou know?

LXXE

Heaven is high; and what wilt thou do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what dost thou know?

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WLC

גָּבְהֵ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם מַה־תִּפְעָ֑ל עֲמֻקָּ֥ה מִ֝שְּׁא֗וֹל מַה־תֵּדָֽע׃

LXX-Br

Ὑψηλὸς ὁ οὐρανὸς, καὶ τί ποιήσεις; βαθύτερα δὲ τῶν ἐν ᾅδου, τί οἶδας;

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• Job 22:12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
• 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.
• Psalms 139:6–8Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You…
• Psalms 148:13Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
• Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
• Job 35:5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
• Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
• Psalms 103:11For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
• 2 Chronicles 6:18But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
• Proverbs 25:2–3It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out. As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.
• Ephesians 3:18–19will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness…

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