He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
Job 35:5 - New Revised Standard Version Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the clouds which are higher than thou. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Look to the heavens and see; and behold the skies which are higher than you. American Standard Version (1901) Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou. Common English Bible Look at the heavens and see; scan the clouds high over you. Catholic Public Domain Version Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee. |
He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!
“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
It is higher than heaven —what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The Lord is slow to anger but great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”