Job 11:8

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Job 11:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

8 They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

9 Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

10 If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

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Job 22:12

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

2 Chronicles 6:18

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Psalms 103:11

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

Psalms 148:13

Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

Proverbs 25:3

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.

Isaiah 55:9

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Psalms 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Psalms 139:7

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

Psalms 139:8

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

Ephesians 3:18

will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

Ephesians 3:19

of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.