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 thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? 4I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

Job 35:5 word by word

הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear

• Lookרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• heavensשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• higherגָּבַהּgâbahh · be highH1361

Cross-references for Job 35:5

• Job 22:12Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
• Job 25:5Lo, even the moon is not bright; and the stars are not pure in his sight:
• Job 36:26Lo, God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
• Job 37:1Aye, my heart trembleth at this also, and leapeth up out of its place:
• 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
• Psalms 8:3When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
• Isaiah 40:22[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
• Isaiah 55:9For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
• Job 36:29But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
• Job 37:16Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?
• Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, — his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of 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

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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