Job 22:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 11:8 : 8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
  • Eccl 5:2 : 2 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
  • Ps 8:3-4 : 3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places; 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Ps 115:3 : 3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

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