Job 35:3

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

I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?

Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.

Altogether in vain, Have I cleansed my heart, And bathed in pureness, my hands;

Ye have said, Vain is it to serve God, - and, What profit when we have kept his charge, or when we have walked gloomily before Yahweh of hosts?

I will respond, even I - on my part, I will shew my knowledge, even I!