8 They are higher than the heavens above-what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below-what can you know?
8 It is higher than heaven
8 God is far higher than you can imagine, far deeper than you can comprehend,
8 They are higher than heaven--what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know?
8 Such knowledge is higher than the heavens- and who are you? It is deeper than the underworld - what do you know?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 11:8
Commentary on Job 11:7-12
(Read Job 11:7-12)
Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he will not submit to the laws of wisdom. He would be wise, he reaches after forbidden wisdom, and, like his first parents, aiming to be wise above what is written, loses the tree of life for the tree of knowledge. Is such a creature as this fit to contend with God?