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They are high as heaven. What can you do? Deeper than Sheol: what can you know?
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God is Beyond Our Grasp
Commentators agree that this verse uses powerful imagery—the highest heavens and the deepest abyss (Sheol)—to declare that God's wisdom and nature are fundamentally incomprehensible to the human mind. As scholars like Gill and Barnes note, we cannot fully "find out God" through our own efforts; His thoughts and ways are infinitely higher and deeper than our own. This truth invites us to trust Him even when we don't understand.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
It is as high as heaven – That is, the knowledge of God; or the subject is as high as heaven. The idea is, that man is incompetent to examin…
19th Century
Anglican
It is as high as heaven. —Literally, The heights of heaven; what can you do? it is deeper than the grave; what can you know?
Baptist
God is incomprehensible by any finite mind; and he is omnipotent, too.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[It is] as high as heaven; what can you do ? &c.] Or, "is higher than the heavens" F9 ; either the wisdom…
Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, and concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be hu…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding speech (Job 10:16), Job had remarked with wonder that among the evils he was suffering, he was being tormented by his …
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