Verse 3

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 34:9 : 9 For he says,‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
• Ps 73:13 : 13 I concluded,“Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
• Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said,‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD of Heaven’s Armies?
• Job 9:21-22 : 21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life. 22 Accusation of God’s Justice“It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
• Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, 31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
• Job 10:15 : 15 If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.
• Job 21:15 : 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
• Job 31:2 : 2 What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?