Job 35:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־תֹ֭אמַר מַה־יִּסְכָּן־לָ֑ךְ מָֽה־אֹ֝עִ֗יל מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃

Transliteration

kî-tōʾmar mah-yiskān-lāk māh-ʾōʿîl mē-ḥaṭṭāʾtî

Grammar Details

• *kî-tōʾmar*: conjunction + imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - that/for you say
• *mah-yiskān-lāk*: interrogative + imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - what profits to you?
• *māh-ʾōʿîl*: interrogative + imperfect, 1st singular - what do I profit/gain?
• *mē-ḥaṭṭāʾtî*: preposition + feminine singular noun + 1st singular possessive suffix - from my sin

Word Meanings

• *tōʾmar*: to say/speak/tell
• *yiskān*: to profit/benefit/be of use
• *ʾōʿîl*: to profit/benefit/gain
• *ḥaṭṭāʾtî*: my sin/wrongdoing/error

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? [And], What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Seinge thou sayest so, how doest thou knowe it? What thinge hast thou more excellet, the I yt am a synner?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? `And', What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? [And], What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

• World English Bible (2000)

  That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’

Referenced Verses

• Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing to delight himself in God.
• Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely I have kept my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
• Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?'.
• Job 9:21-22 : 21 Though I were perfect, yet I would not know my soul: I would despise my life. 22 This is one thing, therefore I have said it, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
• Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands thoroughly; 31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
• Job 10:15 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction;
• Job 21:15 : 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
• Job 31:2 : 2 For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?