Job 35:7

If you have been righteous, || What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

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In The King James Version

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

In Context

6If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, || What do you do to Him?

8For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, || And for a son of man your righteousness.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:14indeed, because who [am] I, and who [are] my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? But the whole [is] from You, and we have given to You out of Your [own] hand;

Psalms 16:2You have said to YHWH, “You [are] my Lord”; My goodness [is] not above You;

Luke 17:10So also you, when you may have done all the things directed you, say, We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do we have done.”

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 →

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