5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Do you know the workings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
Out of the north comes golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty. We can't reach the Almighty, He is exalted in power; In justice and great righteousness he will not oppress.
[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
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Commentary on Job 35 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 35
Job being still silent, Elihu follows his blow, and here, a third time, undertakes to show him that he had spoken amiss, and ought to recant. Three improper sayings he here charges him with, and returns answer to them distinctly:-
Job 35:1-8
We have here,
Job 35:9-13
Elihu here returns an answer to another word that Job had said, which, he thought, reflected much upon the justice and goodness of God, and therefore ought not to pass without a remark. Observe,
Job 35:14-16
Here is,