Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’ New Living Translation For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me? What’s the use of living a righteous life?’ English Standard Version that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ Berean Standard Bible For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ King James Bible For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? New King James Version For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’ New American Standard Bible “For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ NASB 1995 “For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ NASB 1977 “For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’ Legacy Standard Bible For you say, ‘What use will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ Amplified Bible “For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]? What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’ Christian Standard Bible For you ask, “What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin? ” Holman Christian Standard Bible For you ask, “What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?” American Standard Version That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned? Aramaic Bible in Plain English If you spoke, what did it avail you for your soul? And what use that I would condemn you? Brenton Septuagint Translation I will answer thee, and thy three friends. Contemporary English Version Don't you honestly believe it pays to obey him? Douay-Rheims Bible For thou saidst : That which is right doth not please thee : or what will it profit thee if I sin? English Revised Version That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned? GOD'S WORD® Translation when you ask, 'What benefit is it to you?' and, 'What would I gain by sinning?' Good News Translation or to ask God, "How does my sin affect you? What have I gained by not sinning?" International Standard Version After all, you've asked what your benefit will be: 'What will I profit from refraining from sin?' JPS Tanakh 1917 That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' Literal Standard Version For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin? Majority Standard Bible For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ New American Bible When you ask what it profits you, “What advantage do I have from not sinning?” NET Bible But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?' New Revised Standard Version If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ New Heart English Bible That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' Webster's Bible Translation For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? World English Bible that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ Young's Literal Translation For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice…2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ 4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.… Cross References Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You? Job 9:30 If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, Job 9:31 then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me. Job 34:9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.' Job 35:4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well. Psalm 73:13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands. Treasury of Scripture For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? what advantage Job 9:21,22 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life… Job 10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? If I be cleansed from my sin. Jump to Previous Advantage Better Cleansed Gain Inquirest Profit Sin Sinned Sinning What WrongJump to Next Advantage Better Cleansed Gain Inquirest Profit Sin Sinned Sinning What WrongJob 35 1. Comparison is not to be made with God, 6. because our good or evil cannot extend unto him 9. Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for lack of faith Verse 3. - For thou saidst What advantage will it be unto thee? i.e. What advantage will thy righteousness be unto thee? Job had certainly argued that his righteousness brought him no temporal advantage; but he had always a conviction that he would ultimately be the better for it. Elihu, however, does not acknowledge this; and, assuming that Job expects to receive no advantage at all from his integrity, argues that God is not bound to afford him any. And, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? rather, And what profit shall f have, more than if I had sinned? (see the Revised Version, and compare the comments of Rosenmuller and Canon Cook). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction you ask, תֹ֭אמַר (ṯō·mar) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say ‘What מַה־ (mah-) Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what does it profit יִּסְכָּן־ (yis·kān-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5532: To be familiar with, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary me, לָ֑ךְ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew and what מָֽה־ (māh-) Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what benefit do I gain אֹ֝עִ֗יל (’ō·‘îl) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 3276: To confer or gain profit or benefit apart from sin?’ מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃ (mê·ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯî) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender Links Job 35:3 NIVJob 35:3 NLT Job 35:3 ESV Job 35:3 NASB Job 35:3 KJV Job 35:3 BibleApps.com Job 35:3 Biblia Paralela Job 35:3 Chinese Bible Job 35:3 French Bible Job 35:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 35:3 That you ask 'What advantage will it (Jb) |