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when you ask, ‘What benefit is it to you?’
and, ‘What would I gain by sinning?’
I will answer you and your friends.

Human Behavior Cannot Change God

“Look at the heavens and see.
Observe the clouds high above you.

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Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’(A)

“I would like to reply to you
    and to your friends with you.
Look up at the heavens(B) and see;
    gaze at the clouds so high above you.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or you

For (A)you say,
‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

“I will answer you,
And (B)your companions with you.
(C)Look to the heavens and see;
And behold the clouds—
They are higher than you.

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that you ask, (A)‘What advantage have I?
    How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
I will answer you
    and (B)your friends with you.
(C)Look at the heavens, and see;
    and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

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