Job 35:3

Hebrew
ESV
that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
NIV
Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
NLT
For you also ask, 'What's in it for me? What's the use of living a righteous life?'
LXX
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Meaning:

* To do * To make

This verb - to do or make - is used in connection with a large range of activities including creation, covenant formation, obedience, miracles, sin and worship.

Verb forms

Present tense Person Greek Form
ἁμαρτών
KJV
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Job 35:2 ← Job 35:3 → Job 35:4

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