Job 35:6
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
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5Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
7If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.
Matthew Henry on Job 35:2-9
The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou… Read the whole commentary →