Job 35:5
Look unto the heavens, and see; and gaze on the skies which are higher than thou.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
In Context
4I will truly reply unto thee with words, and unto thy friends with thee.
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward the heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them; and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
1 Kings 8:27For in truth will God then dwell on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!
Job 22:12Is not God in the height of heaven? and beholding the highest elevation of the stars, however high they are?
Job 36:26Behold, God is great, and we comprehend him not, the number of his years can truly not be searched out.
Job 37:22The golden [light] that cometh out of the north: around God is terrible majesty.
Isaiah 40:22[It is he] that dwelleth above the circle of the earth, while its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretched 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 →