Job 35:3
For thou sayest, “What benefit will it be unto thee? what more profit shall I have, than if I had sinned?”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2Dost thou deem this to be just, that thou hast said, “My righteousness is more than God's?”
4I will truly reply unto thee with words, and unto thy friends with thee.
Cross References
Job 9:21I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.
Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe unto me: and if I be righteous, I can still not lift up my head; I am sated with disgrace, and ever seeing my affliction;
Job 31:2And what then would have been my portion of God from above? and what lot of the Almighty from on high?
Psalms 73:13Verily in vain have I thus cleansed my heart, and have washed in innocency my hands:
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 →