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“Can you fathom the mystery of God?
    Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
They are high as heaven. What can you do?
    They are deeper than Sheol.[a] What can you know?
Its measure is longer than the earth,
    and broader than the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.

“Can you find out the deep things of God?
    Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?[a](A)
It is higher than heaven[b]—what can you do?
    Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?(B)
Its measure is longer than the earth
    and broader than the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. 11.7 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. 11.8 Heb The heights of heaven