Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which 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 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.

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 you, and your companions with you. 5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Cross References

Job 22:12

"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Genesis 15:5

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

1 Kings 8:27

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Job 25:5-6

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

Job 36:26-5

Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Job 37:16

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Job 37:22-23

Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

Psalm 8:3-4

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Isaiah 40:22-23

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants 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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