Cross References

Job 35:3

Modern English Version

For you said, ‘What advantage will it be to me? What profit will I have if I am cleansed from my sin?’

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If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of shame; look at my affliction!

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’

For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself in God.’

“I will answer you, and your companions with you.

Have I sinned? What am I doing to You, O You watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to myself?

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

You said, “It is vain to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked as mourners before the Lord of Hosts?