Verse 5

Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:12 : 12 Is not God high `in' heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.
  • Isa 55:9 : 9 For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 Jehovah `is' slow to anger, and great in power, And Jehovah doth not entirely acquit, In a hurricane and in a tempest `is' His way, And a cloud `is' the dust of His feet.
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!
  • Job 25:5-6 : 5 Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes. 6 How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!
  • Job 36:26-37:5 : 26 Lo, God `is' high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there `is' no searching. 27 When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour, 28 Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly. 29 Yea, doth `any' understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle? 30 Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered, 31 For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance. 32 By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting, 33 He sheweth by it `to' his friend substance, Anger against perversity. 1 Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place. 2 Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth. 3 Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light `is' over the skirts of the earth. 4 After it roar doth a voice -- He thundereth with the voice of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His voice is heard. 5 God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.
  • Job 37:16 : 16 Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?
  • Job 37:22-23 : 22 From the golden north it cometh, Beside God `is' fearful honour. 23 The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,
  • Ps 8:3-4 : 3 For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish. 4 What `is' man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?
  • Isa 40:22-23 : 22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants `are' as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in. 23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;