Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
In Context
8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done 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 →