Job 11:8

World English Bible (2000)

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

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  • Job 22:12 : 12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
  • Job 26:6 : 6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
  • Job 35:5 : 5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which 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 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
  • Eph 3:18-19 : 18 may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 "But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
  • Ps 103:11 : 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
  • Ps 139:6-8 : 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it. 7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
  • Ps 148:13 : 13 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
  • Prov 25:2-3 : 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

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    9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

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    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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    24That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

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    16"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

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    6This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

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    8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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    3As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

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