5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
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Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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.
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: …
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
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 o…
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