Job 35:3

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

Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’

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

Yet you also ask, ‘What’s the use of living a righteous life? How will it benefit me?’

And then you say, 'It doesn't make a bit of difference whether I've sinned or not.'

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

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

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

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?”