KJV King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
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Job 35:5
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
WEB World English Bible
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
ASV American Standard Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
Surrounding context — Job 35
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 unto him?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
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Job 22:12[Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!Isaiah 55:9For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.Nahum 1:3The 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.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:1 Kings 8:27But 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?Job 37:16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?Job 37:22-23Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God [is] terrible majesty.Psalm 8:3-4When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;Job 25:5-6Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.Job 36:26Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.Genesis 15:5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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