ヨブ記 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 ヨブ記 Chapter 35 connects to 10 cross-references. ヨブは自分が神の前に立って裁判を求める場面を想像した。神が証人として立てば自分は無実だということが分かるはずだと主張した。一方、友人たちは伝統的な知恵を繰り返した。
他の翻訳
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?
相互参照
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. …
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, …