Job 35:2
“Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, || My righteousness [is] more than God’s?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
In Context
3For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?
Cross References
Job 9:17Because He bruises me with a storm, || And has multiplied my wounds for nothing.
Job 16:17Not for violence in my hands, || And my prayer [is] pure.
Job 27:2“God lives! He turned aside my judgment, || And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.
Job 34:5For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,
Matthew 12:36And I say to you that every idle word that men may speak, they will give for it a reckoning in [the] day of judgment;
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 →