Job 35:5
What does Job 35:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 35:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Behold attentively the heavens--and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 37:22
Out of the north cometh golden splendor: God hath upon him terrible majesty.
- Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
- Nahum 1:3
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
- Psalms 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
- Job 25:5
Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:
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