Job 35:5
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
In Context
4I will give thee answer, and thy companions with thee.
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And He brought him forth abroad, and said: 'Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them'; and He said unto him: 'So shall thy seed be.'
1 Kings 8:27But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded!
Job 22:12Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are!
Job 36:26Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
Job 37:22Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.
Isaiah 40:22It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
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 →