Job 35:5New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Look at the heavens and see,—and survey the skies—they are higher than thou.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds [which] are higher then thou.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou. |
Look
5027 {5027} Primeנָבַטnabat{naw-bat'}
A primitive root; to scan, that is, look intently at; by implication to regard with pleasure, favor or care.
z8685 <8685> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperative (See H8810) Count - 731
unto the heavens,
8064 {8064} Primeשָׁמַיִםshamayim{shaw-mah'-yim}
The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve).
and see;
7200 {7200} Primeרָאָהra'ah{raw-aw'}
A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitively, intransitively and causatively).
z8798 <8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperative (See H8810) Count - 2847
and behold
7789 {7789} Primeשׁוּרshuwr{shoor}
A primitive root (rather identical with H7788 through the idea of going round for inspection); to spy out, that is, (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for.
z8798 <8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperative (See H8810) Count - 2847
the clouds
7834 {7834} Primeשַׁחַקshachaq{shakh'-ak}
From H7833; a powder (as beaten small); by analogy a thin vapor; by extension the firmament.
[ which] are higher
1361 {1361} Primeגּבהּgabahh{gaw-bah'}
A primitive root; to soar, that is, be lofty; figuratively to be haughty.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
than
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
thou. |
Job 35:5-8
_ _ Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, Job 22:3, Job 22:12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin.
_ _ behold the clouds, which are higher than thou — spoken with irony. Not only are they higher than thou, but thou canst not even reach them clearly with the eye. Yet these are not as high as God’s seat. God is therefore too exalted to be dependent on man. Therefore He has no inducement to injustice in His dealings with man. When He afflicts, it must be from a different motive; namely, the good of the sufferer. |
Job 35:5
Clouds, &c. — They are far above us, and God is far above them. How much then is he out of the reach either of our sins or our services? |
Job 35:5
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the (c) clouds [which] are higher than thou.
(c) If you cannot control the clouds, will you presume to instruct God? |
- Look:
Job 22:12 [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 25:5-6 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. ... How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man, [which is] a worm?
Job 36:26-33 Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. ... The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
Job 37:1-5 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. ... God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:22-23 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is] terrible majesty. ... [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out: [he is] excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Psalms 8:3-4 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; ... What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Isaiah 40:22-23 [It is] he that sitteth upon 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: ... That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah 55:9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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- the clouds:
Job 36:29 Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle?
Job 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
Nahum 1:3 The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.
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