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Job 35:3

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35:3But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’4

and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’5

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Footnotes

  1. 4 The referent of “you” is usually understood to be God.
  2. 5 The Hebrew text merely says, “What do I gain from my sin?” But Job has claimed that he has not sinned, and so this has to be elliptical: “more than if I had sinned” (H. H. Rowley, Job [], 224). It could also be, “What do I gain without sin?”

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?