Job 35:4

"that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights the idea that sinning offers no genuine benefit or gain, challenging the notion that wrongdoing might lead to personal advantage. Instead, it underscores the futility of sinful actions by questioning their supposed rewards, aligning with a broader theme in Job about the injustice perceived in suffering without clear moral consequence.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I will answer thee -Margin, “return to thee words.” Elihu meant to explain this more fully than it had been done by the friends of Job, and to show where Job was in error. And thy companions with thee -Eliphaz, inJob 22:2, had taken up the same inquiry, and proposed to discuss the subject, but he had gone at once into severe charges against Job, and been drawn into language of harsh crimination, instead of making the matter clear, and Elihu now proposes to state just how it is, and to remove the objections of Job. It may be doubted, however, whether he was much more successful than Eliphaz had been.

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