Ayub 35:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Arahkan pandanganmu ke langit dan lihatlah, perhatikanlah awan-awan yang lebih tinggi dari padamu!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Arahkan pandanganmu ke langit dan lihatlah, perhatikanlah awan-awan yang lebih tinggi dari padamu!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hendaklah engkau menengadah ke langit; lihatlah olehmu dan pandanglah akan awan-awan, bagaimana tingginya dari padamu.

Contextual Overview

¹ Elihu spake moreouer and saide: ² Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest, I am more righteous then God? ³ For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne? ⁴ Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee. ⁵ Loke vnto the heauen and beholde it, consider the cloudes which are hyer then thou. ⁶ If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him? ⁷ If thou be righteous, what geuest thou him? or what wyll he receaue of thyne hande? ⁸ Thy wickednesse [may hurt] a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse [may profite] the sonne 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
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.

Genesis 35:9
And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne, after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him.

Genesis 35:11
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.

Genesis 35:15
And Iacob called the name of the place where God spake with hym, Bethel.

Genesis 35:16
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:

Exodus 23:27
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.

Exodus 34:24
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.

Deuteronomy 11:25
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.

Joshua 5:1
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.

1 Samuel 11:7
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 “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.