Parallel Verses
World English Bible
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are 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?
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?
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 fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are 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
"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Job 35:5
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
2 Chronicles 6:18
"But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
Psalm 103:11
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
Psalm 139:6-8
This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
Psalm 148:13
let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Proverbs 25:2-3
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Isaiah 55:9
"For 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
Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
Ephesians 3:18-19
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,