Job 35:5

Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4I will make answer to you and to your friends:

6If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

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Cross References

Genesis 15:5And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

1 Kings 8:27But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

Job 22:12Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

Job 36:26Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

Job 37:22A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

Isaiah 40:22It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

Matthew Henry on Job 35:2-9

The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou… Read the whole commentary →

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