Job 35:3

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

Job 9:21,22; Job 10:15; Job 21:15; Job 31:2; Job 34:9; Ps 73:13; Mal 3:14

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

² tn 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?”