New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 35:3
3For you say, ‘1What advantage will it be to 2You? 3What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Job 35:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
- New International Version (NIV)Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
- English Standard Version (ESV)that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
- New King James Version (NKJV)For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Context of Job 35:3
1Then Elihu continued and said, 2“Do you think this is in accordance with justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’? For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ 4I will answer you, And your friends with you. 5Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds--they are higher than you.
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כִּֽי־תֹ֭אמַר מַה־יִּסְכָּן־לָ֑ךְ מָֽה־אֹ֝עִ֗יל מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 35:3
- Job 9:21I am guiltless; I do not take notice of myself; I reject my life.
- Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am full of shame, and conscious of my misery.
- Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we plead with Him?’
- Job 31:2And what is the portion of God from above, Or the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he becomes friends with God.’
- Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence;
- Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is pointless to serve God; and what benefit is it for us that we have done what He required, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of armies?
Commentaries on Job 35:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3What advantage will it be unto thee? - As if he had said to God, "My righteousness cannot profit thee, nor do I find that it is of any benefit to myself." Or perhaps Elihu makes here a general assertion, which he afterwards endeavors to exemplify: Thou hast been reasoning how it may profit thee, and thou hast said, "What profit shall I have in righteousness more than in sin?"Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3For thou saidst - Another sentiment of a similar kind which Elihu proposes to examine. He had already adverted to this sentiment of Job in Job 34:9, and examined it at some length, and had shown in reply to it that God could not be unjust, and that there was great impropriety when man presumed to arraign the justice of the Most High. He now adverts to it again in order to show that God could not be benefited or injured by the conduct of man, and that he…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Rather, explanatory of "this" in Job 35:2, "That thou sayest (to thyself, as if a distinct person) What advantage is it (thy integrity) to thee? What profit have I (by integrity) more than (I should have) by my sin?" that is, more than if I had sinned (Job 34:9). Job had said that the wicked, who use these very words, do not suffer for it (Job 21:13-15); whereby he virtually sanctioned their sentiments. The same change of persons from oblique to direct…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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