“Do you think this is just?
    You say, ‘I am in the right,(A) not God.’(B)
Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’(C)

“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or you

“Do you think this is in accordance with (A)justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
For you say, ‘(B)What advantage will it be to [a]You?
(C)What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
I will answer you,
And your friends with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or me

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

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

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

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