Verse 3

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

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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?