Job 35:5

Job 35:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
• New International Version (NIV)Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds— They are higher than you.

Context of Job 35:5

3For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]? What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’ 4I will answer you, And your companions with you. Look to the heavens and see; And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you. 6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him? 7If you are righteous, what do you give God, Or what does He receive from your hand?

Job 35:5 word by word

הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Lookנָבַטnâbaţ · to lookH5027
• unto the heavensשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• and seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• and beholdשׁוּרshûr · to seeH7789
• the cloudsשַׁ֫חַקshachaq · cloudH7834
• are higherגָּבַהּgâbahh · be highH1361

Cross-references for Job 35:5

• Job 22:12“Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the distant stars, how high they are!
• Job 25:5Behold, even the moon has no brightness [compared to God’s majesty and glory] And the stars are not pure in His sight,
• Job 36:26Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.
• Job 37:1“Indeed, at His thundering my heart trembles And leaps out of its place.
• 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!
• Psalms 8:3When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have established,
• Isaiah 40:22It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; [It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
• Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.
• Job 36:29“Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds Or the thundering of His pavilion?
• Job 37:16Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens], The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Commentaries on Job 35:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Look unto the heavens - These heavens, and their host, God has created: the bare sight of them is sufficient to show thee that God is infinitely beyond thee in wisdom and excellence. Behold the clouds - שחקים shechakim, the ethers, (Vulgate, aethera), from שחק shachak, to contend, fight together: the agitated or conflicting air and light; the strong agitation of these producing both light and heat. Look upon these, consider them deeply, and see and…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Look unto the heavens, and see - This is the commencement of the reply which Elihu makes to the sentiment which he had understood Job to advance, and which Eliphaz had proposed formerly to examine. The general object of the reply is, to show that God is so great that he cannot be affected with human conduct, and that he has no interest in treating people otherwise than according to character. He is so exalted that their conduct cannot reach and affect his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-8Elihu tried to answer his own question (35:2). But his response did not add anything new compared to: Zophar (11:8–9). Eliphaz (22:12). Bildad (25:5–6). Job (9:8–10). Elihu did not realize that all sin offends God (Genesis 39:9; Matthew 25:41–46; compare Proverbs 19:17).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, 3, 12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin. behold the clouds, which are higher than thou--spoken with irony. Not only are they higher than thou, but thou canst not even reach them clearly with the eye. Yet these are not as high as God's seat. God is therefore too…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 35:5

• God
• Man

In the dictionaries

• Advantage
• Elihu
• Heaven
• Sky

Commentaries on Job 35

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary