Job 35:5 “Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.”

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

World English Bible

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

American Standard Version

Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

Geneva Bible 1599

Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.

Darby Translation

Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

Young's Literal Translation

Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been 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.

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Cross references

“Look”

Job 22:12 Isaiah 55:9 1 Kings 8:27 Job 25:5 Job 25:6 Job 36:26–33

Job 22:12 · BSB

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Isaiah 55:9 · BSB

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

1 Kings 8:27 · BSB

But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Job 25:5 · BSB

If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,

Job 25:6 · BSB

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

Job 36:26–33 · BSB

Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

“the clouds”

Nahum 1:3 Job 37:16 Job 36:29

Nahum 1:3 · BSB

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Job 37:16 · BSB

Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Job 36:29 · BSB

Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

Also

Genesis 15:5

Genesis 15:5 · BSB

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

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