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Job 35:5

Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Guilt;   Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;   Heaven;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sky;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cloud;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look at the heavens and see;gaze at the clouds high above you.
Hebrew Names Version
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
English Standard Version
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
New Century Version
Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.
New English Translation
Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
Amplified Bible
"Look to the heavens and see; And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.
New American Standard Bible
"Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.
World English Bible
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
Legacy Standard Bible
Look at the heavens and see;And perceive the clouds—they are higher than you.
Berean Standard Bible
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Contemporary English Version
Look up to the heavens
Complete Jewish Bible
Look at the heavens and see; observe the skies, high above you.
Darby Translation
Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Easy-to-Read Version
Look up at the sky. Look at the clouds, which are so much higher than you.
George Lamsa Translation
Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.
Good News Translation
Look at the sky! See how high the clouds are!
Lexham English Bible
"Look at the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you.
Literal Translation
Observe the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, they are higher than you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
loke vnto the heaue, & beholde it: cosidre ye cloudes, how they are hyer then thou.
American Standard Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Bible in Basic English
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
King James Version (1611)
Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Loke vnto the heauen and beholde it, consider the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?
English Revised Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.
Update Bible Version
Look to the heavens, and see; And look at the skies, which are higher than you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
New King James Version
Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are higher than you.
New Living Translation
Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.
New Life Bible
Look at the heavens and see. See the clouds which are higher than you.
New Revised Standard
Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Look at the heavens and see, - and survey the skies - they are higher than thou.
Revised Standard Version
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Young's Literal Translation
Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.

Contextual Overview

1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words: 2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God? 3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin? 4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee. 5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee. 6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? 7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand? 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

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

Genesis 34:30
And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.
Genesis 35:9
And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
Genesis 35:15
And calling the name of that place Bethel.
Genesis 35:16
And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail,
Exodus 23:27
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee:
Exodus 34:24
For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.
Deuteronomy 11:25
None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
Joshua 5:1
Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.par
1 Samuel 11:7
And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out as one man.

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 “presumed,” therefore, since there is no motive to the contrary, that the dealings of God with people would be impartial, and that there “would” be an advantage in serving him - not because people could lay him under “obligation,” 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 “above” all those heavens, and “thus” 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 “would” 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 — 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 acknowledge the perfections of the Maker.


 
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