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Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה
look heavens and,see
The terms Observe and see mean similar things. Elihu is using the two terms together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: “Carefully observe the heavens”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ
clouds higher than,you
Elihu is saying implicitly that God is even higher above Job than the heavens and the clouds. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “the clouds soar above you; God is even greater than that!”
35:4-8 Elihu attempted to answer his own question (35:2), but his answer did not add to what Zophar (11:8-9), Eliphaz (22:12), Bildad (25:5-6), and Job (9:8-10) had already said. Elihu failed to recognize that all sin wrongs God (Gen 39:9; Matt 25:41-46; cp. Prov 19:17).
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.