Job 35:5
Behold attentively the heavens—and see, || And behold the clouds, || They have been higher than you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
In Context
4I return words, and your friends with you,
Cross References
Genesis 15:5and He brings him out outside and says, “Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them”; and He says to him, “Thus is your seed.”
1 Kings 8:27But is it true [that] God dwells on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!
Job 22:12Is God not high [in] the heavens? And see the summit of the stars, || That they are high.
Job 36:26Behold, God [is] high, || And we do not know the number of His years, || Indeed, there [is] no searching.
Job 37:22It comes from the golden north, || Fearful splendor [is] beside God.
Isaiah 40:22He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, || And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, || He who is stretching out the heavens as a thin thing, || And spreads them 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 →