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Job 35

Job 35:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For thou saidst
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Whatf advantage
cakan (Hebrew #5532)
to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary
KJV usage: acquaint (self), be advantage, X ever, (be, (un-))profit(-able), treasurer, be wont.
Pronounce: saw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root
will it be unto thee? and, What profit
ya`al (Hebrew #3276)
properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively: useful, subjectively: benefited)
KJV usage: X at all, set forward, can do good, (be, have) profit, (able).
Pronounce: yaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
shall I have, ζif I be cleansed from my sin
chatta'ah (Hebrew #2403)
from 2398; an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
KJV usage: punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering).
Pronounce: khat-taw-aw'
Origin: or chattacth {khat-tawth'}
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Job 31:2• 2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? (Job 31:2)
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or, by it more than by my sin.

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what advantage.
Job 9:21‑22• 21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
 22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. (Job 9:21‑22)
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Job 10:15• 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; (Job 10:15)
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Job 21:15• 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? (Job 21:15)
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Job 31:2• 2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? (Job 31:2)
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Job 34:9• 9For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. (Job 34:9)
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Psa. 73:13• 13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. (Psa. 73:13)
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Mal. 3:14• 14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? (Mal. 3:14)
If I be cleansed from my sin.
or, by it more than by my sin.
• Verses, 2, 3, seem to be a repetition, with enlargement of what had been previously said in chap. 34:9. Job had declared that his claim was more righteous than God’s, because (ver. 3) God was utterly indifferent to whatever he did. There was no advantage in righteousness any more than in sin! Imagine an upright, God-fearing man bringing himself to such a conclusion! It leads to, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.” (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?