Job 35:3
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?
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, by it more then by my sinne.
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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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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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35:1ELIHU spake moreover, and said,
35:1¶ Elihu spake moreouer, and said,
35:2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
35:2Thinkest thou this to bee right, that thou saydest, My righteousnesse is more then Gods?
35:3For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
35:3For thou saydst, what aduantage will it bee vnto thee, and, what profite shall I haue, ‖if I bee cleansed from my sinne?
Selected passage35:4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
35:4†I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
35:5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
35:5Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou.
35:6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
35:6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or it thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou vnto him?
35:7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
35:7*If thou be righteous, what giuest thou him? or what receiueth hee of thine hand?
35:8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
35:8Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse may profit the sonne of man.
35:9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
35:9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to crie: they crie out by reason of the arme of the mightie.
35:10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
35:10But none saith, where is God my maker, who giueth songs in the night?
35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
35:11Who teacheth vs more then the beasts of the earth, and maketh vs wiser then the foules of heauen.
35:12There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
35:12There they crie, (but none giueth answere) because of the pride of euill men.
35:13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
35:13*Surely God wil not heare vanitie, neither wil the Almightie regard it.
35:14Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
35:14Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet iudgement is before him, therefore trust thou in him.
35:15But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
35:15But now because it is not so, †hee hath visited in his anger, yet †he knoweth it not in great extremitie:
35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
35:16Therefore doeth Iob open his mouth in vaine: he multiplieth words without knowledge.