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Bishop's Bible
Job 35:5
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Look at the heavens and see;gaze at the clouds high above you.
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.
Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
"Look to the heavens and see; And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.
"Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
Look at the heavens and see;And perceive the clouds—they are higher than you.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Look up to the heavens
Look at the heavens and see; observe the skies, high above you.
Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Look up at the sky. Look at the clouds, which are so much higher than you.
Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.
Look at the sky! See how high the clouds are!
"Look at the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you.
Observe the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, they are higher than you.
loke vnto the heaue, & beholde it: cosidre ye cloudes, how they are hyer then thou.
Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.
If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.
Look to the heavens, and see; And look at the skies, which are higher than you.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are higher than you.
Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.
Look at the heavens and see. See the clouds which are higher than you.
Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
Look at the heavens and see, - and survey the skies - they are higher than thou.
Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
"Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Look: Job 22:12, Job 25:5, Job 25:6, Job 36:26-33, Job 37:1-5, Job 37:22, Job 37:23, 1 Kings 8:27, Psalms 8:3, Psalms 8:4, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 40:23, Isaiah 55:9
the clouds: Job 36:29, Job 37:16, Nahum 1:3
Reciprocal: Job 9:32 - not a man Job 11:8 - It is as high as heaven Proverbs 14:21 - that despiseth
Cross-References
But Iacob sayde to Simeon & Leui: ye haue troubled me, and made me to be abhorred of the inhabitours of the land of the Chanaanite and the Pherezite: and I beyng fewe in number, they shall gather the selues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed.
And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne, after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him.
And God sayd vnto him: I am God almightie, be fruitefull and multiplie: a nation, and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee, yea and kinges shall come out of thy loynes.
And Iacob called the name of the place where God spake with hym, Bethel.
And they departed from Bethel: and when he was but a fielde breadth from Ephrath, Rachel began to trauell, and in trauayling, she was in perill:
I will sende my feare before thee, and wyll destroy all the people whyther thou shalt go: & I wyll make all thine enemies [turne] theyr backes vnto thee.
For I wyll cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy coastes: neyther shall any man desyre thy lande, when thou shalt go vp to appeare before the Lorde thy God thryse in a yere.
There shall no man be able to stande before you: for the Lord your God shall cast the feare and dread of you vpon all the lande that ye shall treade vpon, as he hath sayde vnto you.
And whe al the kinges of ye Amorites which are beyonde Iordane westwarde, and al the kynges of the Chanaanites which were by the sea, heard howe ye Lorde had dried vp the waters of Iordane before the chyldren of Israel vntill they were gone ouer, their heartes faynted for feare, and there was no spirite in them any more for the presence of the children of Israel.
And toke a yoke of oxen, & hewed them in peeces, and sent them thorowout all the coastes of Israel by the handes of messengers, saying: Whosoeuer cometh not foorth after Saul and after Samuel, so shal his oxen be serued. And the feare of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Look unto the heavens, and see,.... The firmament of heaven, in which are the sun and moon and stars:
and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou; the clouds of the air or sky, which are lower than the starry heavens, yet these were higher than Job, and much more the starry heavens: but because the word has the signification of "thinness", which does not so well agree with the clouds, which are thick substances, condensed air; some take it to be meant of the supreme region of the heavens, which is pure and thin; so Sephorno: and Job is directed to look to these, not as stargazers do, such as are given to judicial astrology, to judge of the fates of men and kingdoms; but rather thereby to be led to the contemplation of God the author of them, and the glorious perfections of his being they display; and chiefly to observe the height of them, that they were out of his reach, and he could neither help them nor hurt them; that he could neither increase nor diminish the light of the celestial bodies, which he could only behold; nor either advance or hinder their course, nor in the least add to or abate their influence and efficacy; and if he could neither be beneficial nor harmful to them, how was it possible that he could be of any advantage or detriment to God, by any actions of his, good or bad, who is higher and out of sight? This is the answer Elihu in general returned, he more particularly replies as follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Look 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 happiness. It ought to be âpresumed,â therefore, since there is no motive to the contrary, that the dealings of God with people would be impartial, and that there âwouldâ be an advantage in serving him - not because people could lay him under âobligation,â but because it was right and proper that such advantage should accrue to them. To impress this view on the mind, Elihu directs Job and his friends to look to the heavens - so lofty, grand, and sublime; to reflect how much higher they are than man; and to remember that the great Creator is âaboveâ all those heavens, and âthusâ to see that he is so far cxalted that he is not dependent on man; that he cannot be affected by the righteousness or wickedness of his creatures; that his happiness is not dependent on them, and consequently that it is to bc presumed that he would act impartially, and treat all people as they deserved. There âwouldâ be, therefore, an advantage in serving God.
And behold the clouds - Also far above us, and seeming to float in the heavens. The sentiment here is, that one view of the astonishing display of wisdom and power above us must extinguish every feeling that he will be influenced in his dealings as people are in theirs, or that he can gain or suffer anything by the good or bad behavior of his creatures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 35:5. Look 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 — ש×ק×× shechakim, the ethers, (Vulgate, aethera,) from ש×ק 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 acknowledge the perfections of the Maker.
