Job 11:8 Parallel Translations

God's wisdom is higher than heaven. What can you do? It is deeper than the depths of hell. What can you know?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

BBE:

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

DBY:

It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

ERV:

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

JPS:

It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than the nether-world; what canst thou know?

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

Job 11:8 Cross References

XREF:

Job 22:12 "Is not God in the height of heaven? Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!

Job 26:6 "Naked is Sheol before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.

Job 35:5 "Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- they are higher than you.

Job 38:17 "Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

11:8 [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? {d} deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
(d) That is, this perfection of God, and if man is not able to comprehend the height of the heavens, the depth of the earth, the breadth of the sea, which are but creatures, how can he attain to the perfection of the creator.

MHC:

11:7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he will not submit to the laws of wisdom. He would be wise, he reaches after forbidden wisdom, and, like his first parents, aiming to be wise above what is written, loses the tree of life for the tree of knowledge. Is such a creature as this fit to contend with God?

CONC:

Canst Deeper Depths Grave Heaven Heavens Heights Hell Higher Nether-world Outside Sheol Underworld Wilt

Deeper Depths Grave Heaven Heavens Heights Hell High Higher Nether-World Outside Sheol Underworld Wilt

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