Job 35:2

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

In Context

1And Elihu went on to say:

3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

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Cross References

Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

Job 34:5For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

Matthew 12:36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

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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