For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For (as) the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways - (Psalms 57:10; Psalms 89:2; Psalms 103:11.) For is repeated from Isaiah 55:8. But Maurer, after the negation, "neither are your ways my ways," translates, 'but.'