Job 35:7
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?
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.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
- KJV
- If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
- WEB
- If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
- ASV
- If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?
- DARBY
- If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
- BLB
- If you are righteous, what do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
- ÅB
- Er du rettferdig, hva kan du gi ham, hva mottar han av din hånd?
- OTB
- Hvis du er rettferdig, hva kan du tilby Ham,
eller hva ønsker Han fra din hånd? - B1930
- Er du rettferdig, hvad kan du gi ham, hvad mottar han av din hånd?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 16:2
I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
Read in contextJob 22:2–3
“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
Read in contextLuke 17:10
So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
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 contextRomans 11:35
“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
Read in context1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
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