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Job 35:3

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3“For you say, ‘aWhat use will it be to 1You?

bWhat profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or you

Cross references

  1. aJob 34:9
  2. bJob 9:30, 31

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I?

How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,

and what do I gain by not sinning?’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For you ask, “What does it profit you,

and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”

NLTNew Living Translation

For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me?

What’s the use of living a righteous life?’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If you ask what it profits you:

‘How do I benefit by refraining from my sin?’

KJV 1900King 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?