Job 35:5
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- DARBY
- Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
- BLB
- Look to the heavens and see, and behold the clouds—they are higher than you.
- ÅB
- Vend ditt øye mot himmelen og se, gi akt på skyene høyt over deg!
- OTB
- Se opp til himmelen og se;
se på skyene, de er langt over deg. - B1930
- Vend ditt øie mot himmelen og se, gi akt på skyene høit over dig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 22:12
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextNahum 1:3
The 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:22–23
He 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.
Read in contextJob 37:16
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
Read in contextJob 37:22–23
Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
Read in contextJob 36:26–37:5
Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
Read in contextPsalms 8:3–4
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
Read in context