Job 11:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

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  • Job 22:12 : 12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
  • Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
  • Job 35:5 : 5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
  • Isa 55:9 : 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 : 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
  • Eph 3:18-19 : 18 May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, 19 And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
  • Ps 103:11 : 11 For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
  • Ps 139:6-8 : 6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. 7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you? 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
  • Ps 148:13 : 13 Let them give glory to the name of the Lord: for his name only is to be praised: his kingdom is over the earth and the heaven.
  • Prov 25:2-3 : 2 It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out. 3 The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

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    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

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  • Job 22:11-13
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    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

    12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

    13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • Eccl 7:24
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    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

  • Job 38:16-21
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    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

    17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

    18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

    21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

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    5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

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    11 And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

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    6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

    7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

    9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

  • Job 28:12-14
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    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

    13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

    14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

  • Prov 25:3
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    3 The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

  • Job 21:22
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    22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

  • Prov 30:4
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    4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

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    16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

  • Job 28:20
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    20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

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    3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

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    4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

    5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

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    9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

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    33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

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    10 Who does great things not to be searched out; yes, wonders without number.

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    2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

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    5 Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

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    37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

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    26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

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    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

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    6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

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    4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

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    2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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    5 O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

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    11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

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    14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

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    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?