Job 35:3–4
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
For thou saydst, what aduantage will it bee vnto thee, and, what profite shall I haue, ‖if I bee cleansed from my sinne?
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- ‖Alternative wordingOr, by it more then by my sinne.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
†I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. I wil returne to thee words.
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- Malachi 3:14Rank 2 from verse 3
14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
14††Ye haue said, It is vaine to serue God: and what profit is it, that we haue kept his ordinance, and that wee haue walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
- Job 9:21–22Rank 6 from verse 3
21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soule: I would despise my life.
22This is one thing, therefore I said it; he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
- Job 9:30–31Rank 7 from verse 3
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
30If I wash my selfe with snow water, and make my handes neuer so cleane:
31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine owne clothes shall ‖abhorre me.
- Psalms 73:13Rank 8 from verse 3
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- Proverbs 13:20Rank 2 from verse 4
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Job 35:3
1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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Said: spoke, declared, told, or expressed.
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Sense 1: Benefit, profit, or a favourable superiority or opportunity by which one may gain. Sense 2: To benefit or profit.
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Sense 1: Benefit or advantage. Sense 2: To benefit, improve, or advance.
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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.
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Made clean or pure; freed from filth, defilement, guilt, disease, or ceremonial uncleanness.
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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.
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Job 35:4
Sense 1: A reply or response. Sense 2: As a verb, to reply, respond, or give account.
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companions
Persons who accompany, associate, or share a condition, work, covenant, or fellowship with others; fellows, mates, or partners.
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2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
2Thinkest thou this to bee right, that thou saydest, My righteousnesse is more then Gods?
3For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
3For thou saydst, what aduantage will it bee vnto thee, and, what profite shall I haue, ‖if I bee cleansed from my sinne?
Selected passage4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
4†I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
Selected passage5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
5Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.