New King James Version
Job 35:5
5Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds— They are higher than 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 Living Translation (NLT)Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.
Context of Job 35:5
3For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’ 4“I will answer you, And your companions with you. Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds— They are higher than you. 6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you 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 22:12“Is not God in the height of heaven? And see 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 36:26“Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
- Job 37:1“At this also my heart trembles, And leaps from its place.
- 1 Kings 8:27“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
- Psalms 8:3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
- Isaiah 40:22It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, 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 than your thoughts.
- Job 36:29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
- Job 37:16Do you know how the clouds are balanced, Those wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord has His way 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
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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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