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Job 35:3
Job 35:3 is verse 3 of Job chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
King James Version
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto 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?’
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Job 35:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 And Elihu went on to say:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Job 31:2For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?