Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou 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;
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 Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? 8 It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Cross References
Job 22:12
Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job 35:5
Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; 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 them that fear him.
Psalm 139:6-8
O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psalm 148:13
Let them praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty 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 thing.
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, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;
Ephesians 3:18-19
in order that ye may be fully able to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height;