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That you ask, `What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?`
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A Misunderstood Complaint
Commentators clarify that Elihu is not quoting Job directly. Instead, he is interpreting Job's pained cries about suffering despite his integrity as a cynical statement that there's no profit in being righteous. Job felt he was being treated like a sinner, which Elihu reframes as a challenge to God's moral order.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For you said – Another sentiment of a similar kind which Elihu proposes to examine. He had already referred to this sentiment of Jo…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you said, what advantage will it be to you? &c.] Meaning that his righteousness, his holy life and conversation, were…
Elihu reproves Job for justifying himself more than God, and called his attention to the heavens. They are far above us, and God is far above them;…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Eliud had rejected Job's words—because in his estimation Job attributed evil to divine judgment—he now intends to rebuke him for saying that …
