Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.

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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

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 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 answer your words, and your friends with you. 5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you. 6 If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

Cross References

Job 22:12

Is not God high in Heaven? And behold the leading stars, for they are high.

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

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Genesis 15:5

And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.

1 Kings 8:27

But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this house which I have built?

Job 25:5-6

Look even to the moon, and it shines not; yea, the stars are not pure in His sight;

Job 36:26-5

Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.

Job 37:16

Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Job 37:22-23

Golden splendor comes out of the north; God is awesome in His majesty.

Psalm 8:3-4

When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;

Isaiah 40:22-23

It is He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

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