For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? Treasury of Scripture what advantage Job 9:21,22 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life... Job 10:15 If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion... Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him? Job 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? Job 34:9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. Psalm 73:13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. Malachi 3:14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance... If I be cleansed from my sin. or, by it more than by my sin
Context Elihu Reminds Job of God's Justice
1Elihu spoke moreover, and said, 2Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? 3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4I will answer you, and your companions with you. 5Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you. 6If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him? 7If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand? 8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man. 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. 10But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night; 11Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 12There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. 14Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him. 15But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity: 16Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And , What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou saidst : That which is right doth not please thee : or what will it profit thee if I sin?
Darby Bible Translation
For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?
King James Bible
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Young's Literal Translation
For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
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