Job 35:3

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Summary

Job 35:3

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

What advantage

Malachi 3:14

General references

Job 32:17

Bible References

What advantage

For though I be an innocent, and my conscience clear, yea am I weary of my life.

If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery.

What manner of fellow is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, to submit ourselves unto him?'

For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high?

For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

General references

I have a good hope for my part to shape him an answer, and to show him my meaning.