5 Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?
From the north cometh gold; with +God is terrible majesty. The Almighty, we cannot find him out: excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundance of justice, he doth not afflict.
[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a gauze curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh 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,