KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 35:5–7
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Job 35:5
5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
5Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.
Job 35:6
6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or it thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou vnto him?
Job 35:7
7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
7*If thou be righteous, what giuest thou him? or what receiueth hee of thine hand?
- Psal. 16.2. Rom. 11.35 iob. 22.3.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 35:5
To direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.
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To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
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Visible masses of condensed vapour in the sky; also figures of covering, multitude, or obscurity.
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Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Job 35:6
Sin: violate the law of God or a known duty.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (headword: sin)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
transgressions
Violations of laws, commands, duties, or rightful boundaries; offenses or sins.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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multiplied
Increased in numbers.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 35:7
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Receives, accepts, admits, or takes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
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Open the full verse study9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Open the full verse study22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
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Open the full verse study3The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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Open the full verse study27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
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Open the full verse study5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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Open the full verse study5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
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Open the full verse study16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
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Open the full verse study22Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
23Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
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Open the full verse study3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
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Open the full verse study36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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Open the full verse study12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
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Open the full verse study2O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
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Open the full verse study10So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
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Open the full verse study12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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Open the full verse study35Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
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Open the full verse study14But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
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