Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 8. It is as high as heaven ] High as the heavens, what canst thou work? Deep below sheol, (the invisible world,) what canst thou know? Long beyond the earth, and broad beyond the sea, is its measure. These are instances in the immensity of created things, and all out of the reach of human power and knowledge; and if these things are so, how incomprehensible must he be, who designed, created, preserves, and governs the whole! We find the same thought in Milton: - "These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! Almighty! Thine this universal frame: How wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous then!"
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 le 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, s unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the wor 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 tre of life for the tree of knowledge. Is such a creature as this fit to contend with God?
Original Hebrew גבהי1363 שׁמים8064 מה4100 תפעל6466 עמקה6013 משׁאול7585 מה4100 תדע׃3045
