Job 11:8

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“They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol.Sheol is the place of the dead. What can you know?”

— WEB

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

— KJV

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

— ASV

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Job 22:12 "“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!"
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Psalms 139:6-8 "This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it."
Psalms 148:13 "let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens."
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Commentary

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.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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