Job 35:3

Ki (yet) thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? 1 and, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned? + 35:3 see 9:22 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

In Context

2Thinkest thou this to be mishpat (right, just), that thou saidst: 1 Tzidki meEl (I am cleared, in the right, justified before G-d)? 1

4I will answer thee, 1 and thy companions with thee. 1

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Cross References

Job 9:21Though I were blameless, 1 yet would I not know my nefesh; 1 I would despise my life. 1

Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe unto me; 1 even if I be tzaddik (innocent), yet will I not lift up my head, 1 being full of kalon (shame) and conscious of my oni (misery), 1

Job 31:2For what chelek of Eloah is there from above? 1 And what nachalah of Shaddai from on high? 1

Psalms 73:13Surely in vain have I cleansed my lev, 1 and washed my hands in innocency. 1

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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