Job 35:3

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?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, 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 charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?
  • Job 9:21-22 : 21 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life. 22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye, 31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Job 10:15 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
  • Job 21:15 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Job 31:2 : 2 For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

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  • 2 "Do you think this to be your right, Or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

  • Job 35:6-8
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    6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

    7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

    8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.

  • Job 22:2-3
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    2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

    3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

  • 35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

  • 4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'

  • 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn't profit me.

  • 6 That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?

  • Job 14:3-4
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    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

    4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

  • 9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'

  • 4 I will answer you, And your companions with you.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • 9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

  • Job 9:29-30
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    29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

    30 If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,

  • Job 34:31-32
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    31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

    32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • Job 33:8-9
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    8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

    9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

  • 14 If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13 That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

    14 What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  • 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ps 51:2-4
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    2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

    3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

    4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.

  • 13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,

  • 9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

  • Job 13:22-24
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    22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.

    23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

    24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

  • 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

  • 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • 12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

  • 5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

  • 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • 24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

  • 25 Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

  • 1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

  • 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

  • 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

  • 5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

  • 3 Sins overwhelmed me, But you atoned for our transgressions.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?