“Though his exaltedness ascends to the heavens, and his head reaches the clouds” (Job 20:6) – “though his exaltedness ascends to the heavens” – his stature; “and his head reaches the clouds” – until it reaches the clouds. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Rabbi Ḥanina and Rabbi Yehuda ben Rabbi Simon said in the name of Rabbi Elazar: He created him [Adam] filling the entire world from east to west, as it is stated: “Back and front You shaped me” (Psalms 139:5).
From north to south, from where is it derived? “[From the day God made Adam on the earth,] and from one end of the heavens to the other end” (Deuteronomy 4:32). From where is it derived that he even filled the space of the world? The verse states: “You placed Your palm upon me” (Psalms 139:5). “He will perish forever like his dung [kegelelo]” (Job 20:7) – because he rolled away [galal] a minor commandment, he was expelled from the garden of Eden.
“They who saw him will say: Where is he?” (Job 20:7) – that is Adam. When He sent him away, He began lamenting over him and saying: “Behold, the man…”