Job 22:12
Good News Translation
Doesn't God live in the highest heavens and look down on the stars, even though they are high?

New Revised Standard Version
“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Contemporary English Version
God lives in the heavens above the highest stars, where he sees everything.

New American Bible
Does not God, in the heights of the heavens, behold the top of the stars, high though they are?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

not God

Psalm 115:3,16 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

height.

Psalm 8:3,4 For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. . . .

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
11And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters? 12Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?13And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.…
Cross References
Job 11:7
Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Job 11:8
He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Job 35:5
Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

Job 22:11
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