Job 22:12
10 Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
11 it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
- KJV
- Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
- WEB
- “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
- ASV
- Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
- DARBY
- Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
- BLB
- Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold, the head of the stars, how exalted they are!
- ÅB
- Er ikke Gud høy som himmelen? Og se de øverste stjerner, hvor høyt de står!
- OTB
- “Er ikke Gud i himmelens høyder?
Og se de høyeste stjernene, hvor høye de er! - B1930
- Er ikke Gud høi som himmelen? Og se de øverste stjerner, hvor høit de står!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 66:1
This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
Read in contextEcclesiastes 5:2
Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.
Read in contextJob 11:8
They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Read in contextPsalms 8:3–4
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
Read in contextIsaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
Read in contextPsalms 115:3
Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.
Read in contextPsalms 115:16
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
Read in context