Job 11:8

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

The heights of the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Latin

Excelsior cælo est, et quid facies? profundior inferno, et unde cognosces?

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

Job 22:12
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Psalm 139:6–8
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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.
Job 35:5
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Amos 9:2
Though 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.
Psalm 148:13
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
Psalm 103:11
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
Proverbs 25:2–3
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
Ephesians 3:18–19
…will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth