Job 35:7
Good News Translation
Do you help God by being so righteous? There is nothing God needs from you.

New Revised Standard Version
If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?

Contemporary English Version
Is any good you may have done at all helpful to him?

New American Bible
If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Job 22:2,3 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge? . . .

1 Chronicles 29:14 Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand.

Psalm 16:2 I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.

Proverbs 9:12 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Romans 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

Context
Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
6If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? 7And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?8Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.…
Cross References
Luke 17:10
I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

Romans 11:35
Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

Job 22:2
Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 22:3
What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

Job 35:8
Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

Proverbs 9:12
A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Job 35:6
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