Job 11:8

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

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  • Job 22:12 : 12 Is not God in the height of heaven? Look at the distant stars; how high they are!
  • Job 26:6 : 6 Sheol is naked before him; Abaddon has no covering.
  • Job 35:5 : 5 Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above 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 higher than your thoughts.
  • Amos 9:2 : 2 'If they dig down to the depths of Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.'
  • Eph 3:18-19 : 18 may have strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 'But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heavens cannot contain You, much less this house that I have built!
  • Ps 103:11 : 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him.
  • Ps 139:6-8 : 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.
  • Ps 148:13 : 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His majesty is above the earth and the heavens.
  • Prov 25:2-3 : 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search it out. 3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

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    6 and that He would declare to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom is double what you imagine. Know then that God exacts less of you than your guilt deserves.

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  • Job 11:9-10
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    9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

    10 If He passes by, imprisons, or calls an assembly, who can turn Him back?

  • Job 22:11-13
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    11 It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

    12 Is not God in the height of heaven? Look at the distant stars; how high they are!

    13 But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?'

  • Eccl 7:24
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    24 What exists is far off and exceedingly deep—who can discover it?

  • Job 38:16-21
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    16 Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

    17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

    18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

    19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

    20 that you may take it to its boundary and recognize the paths to its home?

    21 Surely you know, since you were already born, and the number of your days is great!

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up their dominion over the earth?

    34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

  • Job 35:5-6
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    5 Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

    6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

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    11 They say, 'How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?'

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    6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

    7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

    8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.

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    8 Have you listened to the secret counsel of God and limited wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know that we do not know? What insight do you have that is not with us?

  • Job 28:12-14
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    12 But where can wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding?

    13 Mankind does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

    14 The deep says, 'It is not in me,' and the sea declares, 'It is not with me.'

  • Prov 25:3
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    3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

  • Job 21:22
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    22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, who judges even the exalted ones?

  • Prov 30:4
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    4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his hands? Who has wrapped the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!

  • Job 37:16
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    16 Do you understand the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?

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    20 But where does wisdom come from, and where is the place of understanding?

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    3 You asked, 'Who is this that obscures counsel without knowledge?' Surely, I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

    5 Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the measuring line across it?

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    9 Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like His?

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    33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and His ways beyond tracing out!

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    10 He performs great and unsearchable things, and wonders without number.

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    2 For what is the portion from God above, or the inheritance from the Almighty on high?

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    5 Is not your wickedness great and your iniquities without end?

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    37 Who can count the clouds with wisdom or tilt the water jars of the heavens,

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    26 Behold, God is great, and we do not comprehend Him; the number of His years is unsearchable.

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    3 Lord, what is man that You care for him, or a son of man that You think of him?

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    6 Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

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    4 Do you not know this from ancient times, since man was placed on the earth,

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    2 Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

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    5 For You have made me glad by Your work, O LORD; I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

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    11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky.

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    14 Behold, these are but the edges of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we hear of him! But the thunder of his power—who can understand?

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    3 Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?