Job 35:7
If you do what's right, what good are you doing for him?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
In Context
6If you sin, how does that harm God? How do your many sins affect God?
8No—your sins only affect people like yourself, and whatever good you do only affects them too.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we are able to give as willingly as this? For everything we have comes from you—we are only giving back what you have given us.
Psalms 16:2I tell the Lord, “Apart from you Lord, I don't have anything that's good.”
Luke 17:10Likewise once you've done everything you were told, you should simply say, ‘We are undeserving servants. We just did our duty.’”
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 →