Job 35:6
If you sin, how does that harm God? How do your many sins affect God?
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In Context
5Just look up at the sky and see. Observe the clouds high above you.
7If you do what's right, what good are you doing for him?
Cross References
Job 7:20What have I done wrong? What have I done to you, Watcher of Humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I'm a burden even to myself?
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are the one to profit from it; if you scoff, you alone will have to suffer the consequences.
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 →