Job 35:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 35

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⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

Job 35:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:2-3
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? …
Psalms 16:2
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Proverbs 9:12
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Romans 11:35
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

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. 7)

5-8. Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, 3, 12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin. behold the clouds, which are higher than thou--spoken with irony. Not only are they higher than thou, but thou canst not even reach them clearly with the eye. Ye…