35 Then Elihu continued, saying:

Do you think it is just when you say,
“I am righteous before God”?
For you ask, “What does it profit you,[a]
and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?” (A)

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Footnotes

  1. 35:3 Some emend to me

Elihu Condemns Job

35 And Elihu answered and said:

“Do you think this to be just?
    Do you say, (A)‘It is my right before God,’
that you ask, (B)‘What advantage have I?
    How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

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