Job 35:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Job 35:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 34:9
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Malachi 3:14
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Job 31:2
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job 9:21-22
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. …
Job 9:30-31
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; …

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have here, I. The bad words which Elihu charges upon Job, Job 35:2, 3. To evince the badness of them he appeals to Job himself, and his own sober thoughts, in the reflection: Thinkest thou this to be right? This intimates Elihu’s confidence that the reproof he now gave was just, for he could refer the judgment of it even to Job himself. Those that have truth and equity on their side sooner or l…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Rather, explanatory of “this” in Job 35:2, “That thou sayest (to thyself, as if a distinct person) What advantage is it (thy integrity) to thee? What profit have I (by integrity) more than (I should have) by my sin?” that is, more than if I had sinned (Job 34:9). Job had said that the wicked, who use these very words, do not suffer for it (Job 21:13-15); whereby he virtually sanctioned their se…