Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Holman Bible
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
International Standard Version
"Isn't God in heaven above? Consider how far away the stars are, and how lofty they are!
A Conservative Version
Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
American Standard Version
Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Amplified
“Is not God in the height of heaven?
And behold the distant stars, how high they are!
Darby Translation
Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
Julia Smith Translation
Is not God high in the heavens? and see the head of the stars for they were lifted up.
King James 2000
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Lexham Expanded Bible
"[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}.
Modern King James verseion
Is not God high in Heaven? And behold the leading stars, for they are high.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now because that God is higher than the heavens, and because thou seest the stars are so high,
NET Bible
"Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!
New Heart English Bible
"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are.
The Emphasized Bible
Is not, GOD, in the height of the heavens? Behold, then, the head of the stars, that they are high.
Webster
Is not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!
World English Bible
"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
Youngs Literal Translation
Is not God high in heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.
Interlinear
Ra'ah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 22:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Third Speech
11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters. 12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are! 13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
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Cross References
Job 11:8
They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
Psalm 8:3-4
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
Psalm 115:3
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
Psalm 115:16
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Isaiah 66:1
The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?