8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
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Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. …
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-12)Zophar here speaks very good things concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly: these two compared together, and duly considered, will have a powerful influence upon our submission to all the dispensations of the divine Providence. I. See here what God is, and let him be adored. 1. He is an incomprehensible Being, infinite and immense, whose nature and perf…
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