Job 11:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

Job 11:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:12
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Isaiah 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Psalms 139:6-8
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. …
Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job 35:5
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Death Gehenna God Guidance Hades Hell

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. It--the “wisdom” of God (Job 11:6). The abruptness of the Hebrew is forcible: “The heights of heaven! What canst thou do” (as to attaining to them with thy gaze, Psa 139:8)? know--namely, of His perfections.