Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
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?
World English Bible
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
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 By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One? 8 Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou? 9 Longer than earth is its measure, And broader than the sea.
Cross References
Job 22:12
Is not God high in heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.
Job 26:6
Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.
Job 35:5
Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
2 Chronicles 6:18
(for is it true? -- God dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)
Psalm 103:11
For, as the height of the heavens is above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him.
Psalm 139:6-8
Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
Psalm 148:13
They praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone hath been set on high, His honour is above earth and heavens.
Proverbs 25:2-3
The honour of God is to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.
Isaiah 55:9
For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.
Amos 9:2
If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.
Ephesians 3:18-19
that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,