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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.

God’s Wisdom is Unfathomable

“Can you search through God’s complex things?
    Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty?
These things are higher than the heavens,
    so what can you do?
They are deeper than Sheol,[a]
    so what can you know?
They are longer than the earth’s circumference,[b]
    and broader than the ocean.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:8 I.e. the place where the dead are in the afterlife
  2. Job 11:9 Lit. measure