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Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

Job 35:7

In 11 translations

BSB
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
KJV
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
WEB
If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
ASV
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?
LSV
If you have been righteous, || What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
YLT
If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
DBY
If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
DRC
And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?
GNV
If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?
JPS
If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He of thy hand?
LXXE
And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand?

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Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־צָ֭דַקְתָּ מַה־תִּתֶּן־ל֑וֹ א֥וֹ מַה־מִיָּדְךָ֥ יִקָּֽח׃
LXX-Br
Ἐπεὶ δὲ οὖν δίκαιος εἶ, τί δώσεις αὐτῷ; ἢ τί ἐκ χειρός σου λήψεται;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
  • Job 22:2–3“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him? Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
  • Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
  • Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
  • Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
  • 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

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