Job 35:3
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 35 connects to 10 cross-references. Elihu argues that Job's righteousness or wickedness neither adds to nor subtracts from God. He criticizes Job for crying out but not to God in the right spirit and observes that when people cry out but do not inquire after …
תרגומים נוספים
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
הפניות צולבות
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. …
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, …
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.