Job 22:12
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Cross-references
Job 11:8 similarly declares God's ways higher than heaven, reinforcing Eliphaz's point about God's inaccessible height.
Job 35:5 urges looking at the heavens to see they are higher than you, directly paralleling Eliphaz's argument about God's lofty position.
Psalm 115:3 affirms God's sovereign rule from heaven, reinforcing Eliphaz's point about God's lofty position and absolute power.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 applies the same truth—God in heaven, you on earth—to warn against hasty words, directly echoing Job 22:12's theme.
Isaiah 66:1 declares heaven as God's throne and earth as footstool, reinforcing the vast distance between God and humanity implied in Job 22:12.
Psalm 94:7 directly states 'The LORD does not see' — the opposite of what Eliphaz implies by God's height in Job 22:12.
Psalm 102:19 affirms the LORD looked down from heaven — reinforcing Eliphaz's point that God sees from His lofty position.
Ezekiel 8:12 quotes the wicked saying 'The LORD does not see us' — directly contradicting the implication of God's height in Job 22:12.
Isaiah 57:15 affirms God's exalted position but adds his dwelling with the contrite—a dimension absent from Eliphaz's distant view.
2 Chronicles 6:21 asks God to hear from heaven, his dwelling place, assuming the same transcendent location as Job 22:12.
Psalm 8:3 marvels at the heavens and stars as God's handiwork, echoing the same awe at the lofty stars in Job 22:12.
Psalm 115:16 distinguishes God's heavenly realm from earth given to humanity, expanding on the spatial separation implied in Job 22:12.
Psalm 103:11 uses the same imagery of heaven's height to describe God's love — a thematic parallel to Job 22:12's transcendence.