Job 35:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Job 35:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:12
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
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.
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.
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: …
Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Creation God Guidance Lord Majesty Man

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have here, I. The bad words which Elihu charges upon Job, Job 35:2, 3. To evince the badness of them he appeals to Job himself, and his own sober thoughts, in the reflection: Thinkest thou this to be right? This intimates Elihu’s confidence that the reproof he now gave was just, for he could refer the judgment of it even to Job himself. Those that have truth and equity on their side sooner or l…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-8. Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, 3, 12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin. behold the clouds, which are higher than thou--spoken with irony. Not only are they higher than thou, but thou canst not even reach them clearly with the eye. Ye…