Job 35:5
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
BSB
ASV
Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
KJV
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
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.
Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, 3, 12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin. behold the clouds, which are higher than thou--spoken with irony.
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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.
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so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
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Nahum 1:3The 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…
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Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a…