Job 35:6
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.
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?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
- KJV
- If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
- WEB
- If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
- ASV
- If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
- DARBY
- If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
- BLB
- If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? Or [if] your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
- ÅB
- Om du synder, hva gjør du ham med det? Og er dine overtredelser mange, hva skade volder du ham?
- OTB
- Hvis du synder, hvilken virkning har det på Ham?
Hvis dine overtredelser er mange, hvordan påvirker de Ham? - B1930
- Om du synder, hvad gjør du ham med det? Og er dine overtredelser mange, hvad skade volder du ham?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 7:19
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
Read in contextProverbs 8:36
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
Read in contextProverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
Read in context