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Job 35:5

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.

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 unto him?

7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

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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.

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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 in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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:

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  • Job 37:16

    Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

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  • Job 37:22–23

    Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

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  • Job 36:26–37:5

    Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

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  • Psalms 8:3–4

    When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

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