Job 35:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

That you ask, What advantage have you? How am I profited more than if I had sinned?

American Standard Version (1901)

That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

Common English Bible

Yet you ask, “What does it benefit you? What have I gained by avoiding sin?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you said, "Having done what is right does not please you," and, "How will it benefit you, if I sin?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

Job 35:3 Cross References

Job 10:15

If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

Job 31:2

What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’

Job 35:4

I will answer you and your friends with you.

Job 7:20

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target? Why have I become a burden to you?

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?