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Job 11:8Job.11.8

[It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Elle est aussi haute que les cieux: que feras-tu? Plus profonde que le séjour des morts: que sauras-tu?

KJV

[It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

Patristic reading

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  • Florus of Lyon

    Book against John Scotus

    rything or confines it to one point, who can resist Him? Or who can say to Him: Why do you do this?" Job 11:8-10. Certainly, the omnipotent Creator, when preparing to destroy the world with a flood because of the extreme wickedness and impiety of humans, said through the testimon…
  • Eucherius of Lyon

    Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas

    r than the abyss, what can you know? His measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea" (Job 11:8): for He who fills heaven and earth, undoubtedly, there is no place absent from His essence. Above everything, He rules and commands; beneath everything, He supports and…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ell, and how wilt thou know? The measure of Him is longer than the earth and broader than the sea" ( Job 11:8,9 ). Therefore God is a body. Objection 2: Further, everything that has figure is a body, since figure is a quality of quantity. But God seems to have figure, for it is w…

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