the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Job 35:5
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Look at the heavens and see;gaze at the clouds high above you.
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.
Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!
"Look to the heavens and see; And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.
"Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.
Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
Look at the heavens and see;And perceive the clouds—they are higher than you.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Look at the heavens and see; observe the skies, high above you.
Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Look up at the sky. Look at the clouds, which are so much higher than you.
Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.
Look at the sky! See how high the clouds are!
"Look at the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you.
Observe the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, they are higher than you.
loke vnto the heaue, & beholde it: cosidre ye cloudes, how they are hyer then thou.
Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.
Loke vnto the heauen and beholde it, consider the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.
Look to the heavens, and see; And look at the skies, which are higher than you.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.
Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- They are higher than you.
Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.
Look at the heavens and see. See the clouds which are higher than you.
Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
Look at the heavens and see, - and survey the skies - they are higher than thou.
Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
"Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Look: Job 22:12, Job 25:5, Job 25:6, Job 36:26-33, Job 37:1-5, Job 37:22, Job 37:23, 1 Kings 8:27, Psalms 8:3, Psalms 8:4, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 40:23, Isaiah 55:9
the clouds: Job 36:29, Job 37:16, Nahum 1:3
Reciprocal: Job 9:32 - not a man Job 11:8 - It is as high as heaven Proverbs 14:21 - that despiseth
Cross-References
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Look what you've done! Now I'm in real trouble with the Canaanites and Perizzites who live around here. There aren't many of us, and if they attack, they'll kill everyone in my household."
After Jacob came back to the land of Canaan, God appeared to him again. This time he gave Jacob a new name and blessed him by saying: I am God All-Powerful, and from now on your name will be Israel instead of Jacob. You will have many children. Your descendants will become nations, and some of the men in your family will even be kings.
and he named the place Bethel.
Jacob and his family had left Bethel and were still a long way from Ephrath, when the time came for Rachel's baby to be born.
I will terrify those nations and make your enemies so confused that they will run from you.
I will force the nations out of your land and enlarge your borders. Then no one will try to take your property when you come to worship me these three times each year.
No one will be able to stand up to you. The Lord will make everyone terrified of you, just as he promised.
The Amorite kings west of the Jordan River and the Canaanite kings along the Mediterranean Sea lost their courage and their will to fight, when they heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan River to let Israel go across.
Saul killed two of his oxen, cut them up in pieces, and gave the pieces to the messengers. He told them to show the pieces to everyone in Israel and say, "Saul and Samuel are getting an army together. Come and join them. If you don't, this is what will happen to your oxen!" The Lord made the people of Israel terribly afraid. So all the men came together
The whole Philistine army panicked—those in camp, those on guard duty, those in the fields, and those on raiding patrols. All of them were afraid and confused. Then God sent an earthquake, and the ground began to tremble.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Look unto the heavens, and see,.... The firmament of heaven, in which are the sun and moon and stars:
and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou; the clouds of the air or sky, which are lower than the starry heavens, yet these were higher than Job, and much more the starry heavens: but because the word has the signification of "thinness", which does not so well agree with the clouds, which are thick substances, condensed air; some take it to be meant of the supreme region of the heavens, which is pure and thin; so Sephorno: and Job is directed to look to these, not as stargazers do, such as are given to judicial astrology, to judge of the fates of men and kingdoms; but rather thereby to be led to the contemplation of God the author of them, and the glorious perfections of his being they display; and chiefly to observe the height of them, that they were out of his reach, and he could neither help them nor hurt them; that he could neither increase nor diminish the light of the celestial bodies, which he could only behold; nor either advance or hinder their course, nor in the least add to or abate their influence and efficacy; and if he could neither be beneficial nor harmful to them, how was it possible that he could be of any advantage or detriment to God, by any actions of his, good or bad, who is higher and out of sight? This is the answer Elihu in general returned, he more particularly replies as follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Look unto the heavens, and see - This is the commencement of the reply which Elihu makes to the sentiment which he had understood Job to advance, and which Eliphaz had proposed formerly to examine. The general object of the reply is, to show that God is so great that he cannot be affected with human conduct, and that he has no interest in treating people otherwise than according to character. He is so exalted that their conduct cannot reach and affect his happiness. It ought to be “presumed,” therefore, since there is no motive to the contrary, that the dealings of God with people would be impartial, and that there “would” be an advantage in serving him - not because people could lay him under “obligation,” but because it was right and proper that such advantage should accrue to them. To impress this view on the mind, Elihu directs Job and his friends to look to the heavens - so lofty, grand, and sublime; to reflect how much higher they are than man; and to remember that the great Creator is “above” all those heavens, and “thus” to see that he is so far cxalted that he is not dependent on man; that he cannot be affected by the righteousness or wickedness of his creatures; that his happiness is not dependent on them, and consequently that it is to bc presumed that he would act impartially, and treat all people as they deserved. There “would” be, therefore, an advantage in serving God.
And behold the clouds - Also far above us, and seeming to float in the heavens. The sentiment here is, that one view of the astonishing display of wisdom and power above us must extinguish every feeling that he will be influenced in his dealings as people are in theirs, or that he can gain or suffer anything by the good or bad behavior of his creatures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 35:5. Look unto the heavens — These heavens, and their host, God has created: the bare sight of them is sufficient to show thee that God is infinitely beyond thee in wisdom and excellence.
Behold the clouds — שחקים shechakim, the ethers, (Vulgate, aethera,) from שחק shachak, to contend, fight together: the agitated or conflicting air and light; the strong agitation of these producing both light and heat. Look upon these, consider them deeply, and see and acknowledge the perfections of the Maker.
