Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
These things are higher than the heavens, so what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol, so what can you know?
New American Standard Bible
Deeper than
King James Version
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Holman Bible
They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
A Conservative Version
It is high as heaven; what can thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what can thou know?
American Standard Version
It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
Amplified
“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?
It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?
Bible in Basic English
They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
Darby Translation
It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
Julia Smith Translation
The heavens being high, what wilt thou do? Hades being deep, what wilt thou know?
King James 2000
It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{It is higher than the heaven}; what can you do? [It is] deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
Modern King James verseion
Heights of the heavens! What can you do? It is deeper than hell, what can you know?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He is higher than heaven; what wilt thou do? Deeper than hell; how wilt thou then know him?
NET Bible
It is higher than the heavens -- what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol -- what can you know?
New Heart English Bible
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
The Emphasized Bible
The heights of the heavens, what canst thou do? Depths deeper than hades, what canst thou know?
Webster
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
World English Bible
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
Youngs Literal Translation
Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
Themes
Hell » In the rv the word "sheol" itself occurs in the following scriptures
Interlinear
Pa`al
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 11:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Can Do As He Pleases
7 "Can you search through God's complex things? Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty? 8 These things are higher than the heavens, so what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol, so what can you know? 9 They are longer than the earth's circumference, and broader than the ocean.
Cross References
Job 22:12
"Isn't God in heaven above? Consider how far away the stars are, and how lofty they are!
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before God and Abaddon has no clothes.
Job 35:5
"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?
2 Chronicles 6:18
and yet, will God truly reside on earth with human beings? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!
Psalm 103:11
As high as heaven rises above earth, so his gracious love strengthens those who fear him.
Psalm 139:6-8
Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it.
Psalm 148:13
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is lifted up; his majesty transcends earth and heaven.
Proverbs 25:2-3
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.
Isaiah 55:9
"For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Amos 9:2
"Even if they burrow into Sheol, from there my hand will find them. Even if they ascend to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.
Ephesians 3:18-19
you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep