Job 22:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 22:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 11:8
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Isaiah 66:1
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Psalms 8:3-4
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; …
Psalms 115:3
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Topics

Astronomy Atheism Attributes of God Blasphemy Cursing God Guidance Heaven

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…

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

(vv. 12)

12. Eliphaz says this to prove that God can from His height behold all things; gratuitously inferring that Job denied it, because he denied that the wicked are punished here. height--Hebrew, “head of the stars”; that is, “elevation” (Job 11:8).