Job 35:5

In 11 translations

BSB

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

KJV

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

WEB

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

ASV

Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

LSV

Behold attentively the heavens—and see, || And behold the clouds, || They have been higher than you.

YLT

Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

DBY

Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

DRC

Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

GNV

Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.

JPS

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

LXXE

Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ ἴδε· κατάμαθε δὲ νέφη, ὡς ὑψηλὰ ἀπὸ σοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 22:12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
• Isaiah 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
• Isaiah 40:22–23He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He brings the princes to nothing and makes…
• Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
• Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
• Job 37:16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
• Job 37:22–23Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
• Job 36:26–37:5Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable. For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.…
• 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
• Job 25:5–6If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
• Psalms 8:3–4When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place— what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

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