Job 35:3

35:3 But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’ ¹ 

and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’ ² 

Job 35:14

35:14 How much less, then,

when you say that you do not perceive him,

that the case is before him

and you are waiting for him! ³ 

[35:3]  ¹ tn The referent of “you” is usually understood to be God.

[35:3]  ² tn The Hebrew text merely says, “What do I gain from my sin?” But Job has claimed that he has not sinned, and so this has to be elliptical: “more than if I had sinned” (H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 224). It could also be, “What do I gain without sin?”

[35:14]  ³ sn The point is that if God does not listen to those who do not turn to him, how much less likely is he to turn to one who complains against him.