Job 35:5
Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
In Context
4And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
1 Kings 8:27Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?
Job 22:12Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?
Job 36:26Behold, God is great, defeating our knowledge; the number of his years is inestimable.
Job 37:22Riches arrive from the north, and fearful praise reaches out to God.
Isaiah 40:22He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
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 →