Job 35:3

In 10 translations

BSB

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

KJV

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?if…: or, by it more than by my sin

WEB

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

ASV

That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

LSV

For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?

YLT

For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

DBY

For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

DRC

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

GNV

For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?

JPS

That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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כִּֽי־תֹ֭אמַר מַה־יִּסְכָּן־לָ֑ךְ מָֽה־אֹ֝עִ֗יל מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃

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• Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
• 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?
• Job 9:30–31If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
• Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
• Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
• Job 31:2For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
• Job 9:21–22Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life. It 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.

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