Parallel Verses
NET Bible
It is higher than the heavens -- what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol -- 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?
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?
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?
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 discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty? 8 It is higher than the heavens -- what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol -- what can you know? 9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Cross References
Job 22:12
"Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!
Job 26:6
The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.
Job 35:5
Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
2 Chronicles 6:18
"God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
Psalm 103:11
For as the skies are high above the earth, so his loyal love towers over his faithful followers.
Psalm 139:6-8
Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.
Psalm 148:13
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty extends over the earth and sky.
Proverbs 25:2-3
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.
Isaiah 55:9
for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.
Amos 9:2
Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.
Ephesians 3:18-19
you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,