Job 35:3

Modern

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

Traditional

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

Literal

Indeed you say, ‘What does it benefit You? What do I gain from my sin?”

Latin

Dixisti enim: Non tibi placet quod rectum est: vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?

Hebrew

English

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Job 31:2
For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Job 9:21–22
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
Job 10:15
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Job 9:30–31
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,