Job 35:3
For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”
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In Context
2Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”
4And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.
Cross References
Job 9:21And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.
Job 10:15And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.
Job 31:2For what portion should God from above hold for me, and what inheritance should the Almighty from on high keep?
Psalms 73:13In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
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 →