Job 35:3

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For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, 'A man gains nothing by delighting in God.'
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'Serving God is futile. What profit is there in keeping his requirements or walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?
  • Job 9:21-22 : 21 Though I am blameless, I do not even understand myself; I despise my life. 22 It makes no difference; therefore, I declare: He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap, 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.
  • Job 10:15 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head, filled with shame and seeing my misery.
  • Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Job 31:2 : 2 For what is the portion from God above, or the inheritance from the Almighty on high?

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    2Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?

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    6If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

    7If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

    8Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only a child of humanity.

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    2Can a man benefit God? Even a wise man benefits only himself.

    3Is it a delight to the Almighty if you are righteous? Or does He gain anything if your ways are blameless?

  • Jer 2:35
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    35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

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    4For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

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    27They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.'

  • Job 10:6
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    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

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    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

    4Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.

  • Job 34:9
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    9For he has said, 'A man gains nothing by delighting in God.'

  • Job 35:4
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    4I will answer you and your companions who are with you.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

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    9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

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    29Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

    30Even if I washed myself with snow and cleansed my hands with soap,

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    31Suppose someone says to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend anymore.'

    32'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

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    8Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words.

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    14If I sin, You watch me, and You will not acquit me of my guilt.

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

    14What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

  • Jer 2:22
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    22Though you wash yourself with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Lord GOD.

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    2When Nathan the prophet came to him after David had gone to Bathsheba.

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    13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.

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    9To You, O LORD, I call; to the Lord I plead for mercy:

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    22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

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    24I was blameless before Him and kept myself from my iniquity.

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    4How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

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