Bible verse
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Job 35:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 35.
1 And Elihu went on to say:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
KJV
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?
ASV
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
ERV
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
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