Job 35:5

Modern

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Suspice cælum, et intuere: et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.

Hebrew

English

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Elihu tried to answer his own question (35:2).

But his response did not add anything new compared to:

Elihu did not realize that all sin offends God (Genesis 39:9; Matthew 25:41–46; compare Proverbs 19:17).

Job 22:12
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 40:22–23
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Job 36:26–37:5
Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
Psalm 8:3–4
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
Job 37:22–23
Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Job 25:5–6
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
Job 37:16
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.