It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
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