Verse 3

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

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 followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
  • Job 9:21-22 : 21 I am blameless. I don't respect 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?