Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Look upon the heavens and see; behold the clouds, they were high above thee.
New American Standard Bible
And behold
King James Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Holman Bible
gaze at the clouds high above you.
International Standard Version
"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?
A Conservative Version
Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
American Standard Version
Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Amplified
“Look to the heavens and see;
And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.
Bible in Basic English
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Darby Translation
Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
King James 2000
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Look at [the] heavens, and see; and observe [the] clouds [that] are higher than you.
Modern King James verseion
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Look unto the heaven, and behold it: consider the clouds, how they are higher than thou.
NET Bible
Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
New Heart English Bible
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
The Emphasized Bible
Look at the heavens and see, - and survey the skies - they are higher than thou.
Webster
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
World English Bible
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
Themes
Interlinear
Nabat
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 35:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Condemns Job
4 I will turn back words to thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look upon the heavens and see; behold the clouds, they were high above thee. 6 If thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do against him? and thy transgressions were multiplied, what wilt thou do to him?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 22:12
Is not God high in the heavens? and see the head of the stars for they were lifted up.
Isaiah 55:9
As the heavens were high above the earth, so my ways were high above your ways, and my purposes above your purposes.
Nahum 1:3
Jehovah slow to anger and great of power, and Jehovah acquitting, will not acquit his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and a cloud the dust of his feet
Genesis 15:5
And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed.
1 Kings 8:27
For truly shall God dwell upon the earth? Behold the heavens and the heavens of the heavens shall not contain thee; much less this house which I built
Job 25:5-6
Behold even to the moon, and it shall not shine; and the stars were not clean in his eyes.
Job 36:26-5
Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out
Job 37:16
Shalt thou know upon the poisings of the cloud, the wonders of the complete of knowledges?
Job 37:22-23
From the north, gold shall come: upon God terrible majesty.
Psalm 8:3-4
For I shall see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars which thou didst prepare.
Isaiah 40:22-23
He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in: