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Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
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God's Unaffected Majesty
Elihu directs Job to look at the vast, high heavens to grasp a crucial truth: God is infinitely greater. Commentators explain that just as we cannot help or harm the sun or clouds, our actions cannot fundamentally affect God's happiness or power. He is so far above us that our righteousness doesn't benefit Him, nor does our sin harm Him.
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Job
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Look to the heavens, and see - This is the beginning of the reply that Elihu makes to the sentiment that he understood Job to expre…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Look unto the heavens, and see The firmament of heaven, in which are the sun and moon and stars:
and behold t…
Elihu reproves Job for justifying himself more than God, and called his attention to the heavens. They are far above us, and God is far above them;…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Eliud had rejected Job's words—because in his estimation Job attributed evil to divine judgment—he now intends to rebuke him for saying that …