Job 35:3

WEB

³that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

KJV

³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

BSB

³^[+] For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

FBV

³And you ask, ‘What benefit do I get? What good has it done me by not sinning?’

Extra References

Job 34:9

⁹For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

Malachi 3:14

¹⁴You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

Psalms 73:13

¹³Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Job 31:2

²For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Job 9:21-22

²¹I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life. ²²“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 10:15

¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Job 9:30-31

³⁰If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Job 21:15

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’