Job 35:6-8

Elihu Condemns Job

6 If you have sinned, z what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 a If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness b a son of man.

  1. Cross References
    Proverbs 8:36
    But he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.
    Jeremiah 7:19
    Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?
  2. Cross References
    Job 22:2 - 3
    Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
    Proverbs 9:12
    If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
    Luke 17:10
    So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'
    Job 41:11
    Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
    Romans 11:35
    "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"
  3. Cross References
    Job 25:6
    How much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!
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