New English Translation
Job 35:6
6If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
Job 35:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
- New International Version (NIV)If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
- English Standard Version (ESV)If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
- New King James Version (NKJV)If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
Context of Job 35:6
4I will reply to you, and to your friends with you. 5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you! If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him? 7If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand? 8Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
Read all of Job 35Job 35:6 word by word
אִם־חָ֭טָאתָ מַה־תִּפְעָל־בּ֑וֹ וְרַבּ֥וּ פְ֝שָׁעֶ֗יךָ מַה־תַּעֲשֶׂה־לּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 35:6
- Proverbs 8:36But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.
- Jeremiah 7:19But I am not really the one being troubled!” says the Lord. “Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!
Commentaries on Job 35:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6If thou sinnest - God is not benefited by thy righteousness, nor injured by thy iniquity, howsoever multiplied it may be.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? - This should not be interpreted as designed to justify sin, or as saying that there is no evil in it, or that God does not regard it. That is not the point or scope of the remark of Elihu. His object is to show that God is not influenced in his treatment of his creatures as people are in their treatment of each other. He has no “interest” in being partial, or in treating them otherwise than they deserve. If…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-8Elihu tried to answer his own question (35:2). But his response did not add anything new compared to: Zophar (11:8–9). Eliphaz (22:12). Bildad (25:5–6). Job (9:8–10). Elihu did not realize that all sin offends God (Genesis 39:9; Matthew 25:41–46; compare Proverbs 19:17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-85-8. Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, 3, 12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin. behold the clouds, which are higher than thou--spoken with irony. Not only are they higher than thou, but thou canst not even reach them clearly with the eye. Yet these are not as high as God's seat. God is therefore too…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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