Christian Standard Bible
Job 35:5
5Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
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 ask, “What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?” 4I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. 6If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him? 7If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?
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הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 35:5
- Job 22:12Isn’t God as high as the heavens? And look at the highest stars — how lofty they are!
- Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine and the stars are not pure in his sight,
- Job 36:26Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of his years cannot be counted.
- Job 37:1My heart pounds at this and leaps from my chest.
- 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed live on earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.
- Psalms 8:3When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place,
- Isaiah 40:22God is enthroned above the circle of the earth; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
- Isaiah 55:9“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
- Job 36:29Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?
- Job 37:16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and 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
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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
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