Job 35:5 · KJV
“Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds {which} are higher than thou.”
— Job 35:5
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. {answer...: Heb. return to thee words}
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or {if} thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Job 35 — Context
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? {and}, What profit shall I have, {if I be cleansed} from my sin? {if...: or, by it more than by my sin}
4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. {answer...: Heb. return to thee words}
5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds {which} are higher than thou.
6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or {if} thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Cross References
Job 22:12
{Is} not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! {height of the stars: Heb. head of the stars}
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: {It is...: or, Him that}
Genesis 15:5
And 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.
Job 25:5-6
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
1 Kings 8:27
But 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 36:26
Behold, God {is} great, and we know {him} not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.