Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Look upon the heavens and see; behold the clouds, they were high above thee.

New American Standard Bible

Look at the heavens and see;
And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Look at the heavens and see;
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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נבט 
Nabat 
Usage: 69

שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

and behold
שׁוּר 
Shuwr 
Usage: 17

the clouds
שׁחק 
Shachaq 
Usage: 21

גּבהּ 
Gabahh 
Usage: 34

References

Easton

Smith

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?

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:

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