Job 35:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

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  • Job 22:12 : 12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
  • Isa 55:9 : 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
  • Job 25:5-6 : 5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: 6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
  • Job 36:26-37:5 : 26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out. 27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, 28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples. 29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent? 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. 31 For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure. 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark. 33 The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath. 1 At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place. 2 Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth. 3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. 4 After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding. 5 He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
  • Job 37:16 : 16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?
  • Job 37:22-23 : 22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared. 23 There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
  • Ps 8:3-4 : 3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places; 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Isa 40:22-23 : 22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place. 23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

  • Job 38:33-34
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  • Job 11:8-9
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    8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

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  • Job 20:6
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    6 Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

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    5 Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.

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    4 For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

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    9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

  • Job 10:4-5
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    4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Job 37:18
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    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Ps 102:19
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    19 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;

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    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

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    2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Hab 1:13
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    13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

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    22 Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

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    5 O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

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    4 I will make answer to you and to your friends:

  • Job 36:24-25
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    24 See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

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    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

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    21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

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    29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

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    3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

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    24 For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

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    13 The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;

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    14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

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    5 His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.