Job 35:3
Good News Translation
or to ask God, "How does my sin affect you? What have I gained by not sinning?"

New Revised Standard Version
If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Contemporary English Version
Don't you honestly believe it pays to obey him?

New American Bible
When you ask what it profits you, “What advantage do I have from not sinning?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

what advantage

Job 9:21,22 Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life. . . .

Job 10:15 And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

Job 21:15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

Job 31:2 For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?

Job 34:9 For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

Psalm 73:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

If I be cleansed from my sin.

Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
2Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God? 3For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?4Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.…
Cross References
Job 7:20
I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

Job 9:30
If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

Job 9:31
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Job 34:9
For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

Job 35:4
Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

Psalm 73:13
And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Job 35:2
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