Job 11:8
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They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
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Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.