Job 35:5

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

Cross-reference

In Job 36:26-33, Elihu expands on God's greatness in clouds and thunder — here he introduces that theme by calling Job to look at the heavens.

Job 36:29 Parallel

In Job 36:29, Elihu asks who can understand the spreading of clouds — a direct continuation of the cloud imagery from Job 35:5, emphasizing God's incomprehensible works.

In Job 37:1-5, Elihu describes God's thunderous voice — here he begins by directing Job to observe the heavens and clouds.

Job 37:16 Parallel

In Job 37:16, Elihu asks about the balancing of clouds — building on the same cloud theme to highlight God's perfect knowledge and power.

Job 37:23 Parallel

In Job 37:23, Elihu continues the theme: God is beyond finding out, great in power — reinforcing the transcendence implied by looking at the heavens.

Job 11:8 Parallel

In Job 11:8, Zophar uses the same height imagery — God's ways are higher than heaven, reinforcing Elihu's point about God's exalted nature.

Job 22:12 Parallel

In Job 22:12, Eliphaz points to heaven's height to argue God's distance — here Elihu uses similar imagery to show God's transcendence.

Job 9:32 Parallel

In Job 9:32, Job similarly stresses God's transcendence — He is not a man to be confronted. Both highlight the vast distance between human and divine.

Job 37:22 Parallel

In Job 37:22, Elihu speaks of God's terrible majesty from the north — here he calls Job to look at the heavens, setting up that theme.

In 1 Kings 8:27, Solomon declares even the highest heavens cannot contain God — a direct echo of the heavens being 'higher than you' in Job 35:5.

Psalm 8:4 Parallel

In Psalm 8:4, the question 'what is man?' follows the same cosmic perspective — both contrast human smallness with God's exalted position above the heavens.

In Isaiah 40:22, God sits above the circle of the earth and stretches out the heavens — expanding on the same image of God's transcendence beyond the skies.

Isaiah 55:9 Parallel

In Isaiah 55:9, the heavens being higher than the earth directly parallels Job 35:5's imagery, applied to God's ways and thoughts being higher than ours.

Psalm 8:3 Parallel

In Psalm 8:3, the psalmist also looks at the heavens, but marvels at God's creative work — a different focus from Job's point about human insignificance.