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Job 35:3

NETBible	But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’¹ and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’²
NIV © biblegateway Job 35:3	Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
NASB © biblegateway Job 35:3	"For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
NLT © biblegateway Job 35:3	Yet you also ask, ‘What’s the use of living a righteous life? How will it benefit me?’
MSG © biblegateway Job 35:3	And then you say, 'It doesn't make a bit of difference whether I've sinned or not.'
BBE © SABDAweb Job 35:3	What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 35:3	If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
NKJV © biblegateway Job 35:3	For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
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KJV	For thou saidst <0559> (8799)_, What advantage <05532> (8799) will it be unto thee? [and], What profit <03276> (8686) shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin <02403>_? {if...: or, by it more than by my sin}
NASB © biblegateway Job 35:3	"For you say <0559> , 'What <04100> advantage <05532> will it be to You? What <04100> profit <03276> will I have, more <04480> than <04480> if I had sinned <02403> ?'
LXXM	h <2228> CONJ ereiv {V-FAI-2S} ti <5100> I-ASN poihsw <4160> V-AAS-1S amartwn <264> V-AAPNS
NET [draft] ITL	But <03588> you say <0559> , ‘What <04100> will it profit <05532> you,’ and, ‘What <04100> do I gain <03276> by not sinning <02403> ?’
HEBREW	ytajxm <02403> lyea <03276> hm <04100> Kl <0> Nkoy <05532> hm <04100> rmat <0559> yk (35:3) <03588>

NETBible

But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’¹ and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’²

NET Notes

¹tn The referent of “you” is usually understood to be God.

²tn 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?”