3 For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life. It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
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Commentary on Job 35 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 35
Job being still silent, Elihu follows his blow, and here, a third time, undertakes to show him that he had spoken amiss, and ought to recant. Three improper sayings he here charges him with, and returns answer to them distinctly:-
Job 35:1-8
We have here,
Job 35:9-13
Elihu here returns an answer to another word that Job had said, which, he thought, reflected much upon the justice and goodness of God, and therefore ought not to pass without a remark. Observe,
Job 35:14-16
Here is,