Job 35:5

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 35:5 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.”
  2. 1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
  3. 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.
  4. Job 11:7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
  5. Job 22:12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
  6. Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
  7. Job 36:26Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
  8. Job 37:16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
  9. Job 37:22Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
  10. Psalms 8:3When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
  11. Isaiah 40:22He 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.
  12. Isaiah 55:8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.

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