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THE MESSAGE
Job 35:6
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If you sin, how does it affect God?If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If you sin, it does nothing to God; even if your sins are many, they do nothing to him.
If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?
"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
and think! Do your sins hurt God?
If you sin, how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many, how do you affect him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
If you sin, it does not hurt God. Even if your sins are too many to count, that does nothing to God.
If you sin, what difference does it make to him? And if your iniquities be multiplied, what does it matter to him?
If you sin, that does no harm to God. If you do wrong many times, does that affect him?
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
Yf thou synnest, what dost thou vnto him? Yf thine offences be many, how gettest thou his fauoure?
If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against Him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or it thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou vnto him?
If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?
and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?
If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him.
If thou synnest `ayens hym, what schalt thou anoye hym? and if thi wickidnessis ben multiplied, what schalt thou do ayens hym?
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you to him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?
If you have sinned, what does that do to God? If you have done many wrongs, what does that do to Him?
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?
If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 8:36, Proverbs 9:12, Jeremiah 7:19
Reciprocal: Job 22:2 - a man Proverbs 14:21 - that despiseth Luke 17:10 - General Acts 17:25 - is
Cross-References
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau." Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since." They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob. Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan. He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother. And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak). God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)." God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House). They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor—hard, hard labor. When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid—you have another boy." With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune). Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone." Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram.
Jacob said to Joseph, "The Strong God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. He said, ‘I'm going to make you prosperous and numerous, turn you into a congregation of tribes; and I'll turn this land over to your children coming after you as a permanent inheritance.' I'm adopting your two sons who were born to you here in Egypt before I joined you; they have equal status with Reuben and Simeon. But any children born after them are yours; they will come after their brothers in matters of inheritance. I want it this way because, as I was returning from Paddan, your mother Rachel, to my deep sorrow, died as we were on our way through Canaan when we were only a short distance from Ephrath, now called Bethlehem."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him?.... Sin is expressly said to be against God, Psalms 51:4; it is contrary to his nature, as any opposites can be to each other: it is against his law, a breach and violation of it; and so against his supreme legislative power and authority, and a contempt of it; it is what he is angry with and is provoked by, being what he hates and abhors, and is abominable in his sight. But then he cannot be supposed to be so affected with it to be ruffled and discomposed, or his peace be disturbed, and his happiness in the least broke in upon; for affections are only attributed to him after the manner of men; much less is he so affected hereby as to be hurt or in danger of being destroyed, nor even of being dethroned: men can no more reach him by any hostile action of theirs, such as sin is, than they can reach the sun and stop its course, lessen its light or pluck it from its orbit. Or, "what canst thou work for him?" as Mr. Broughton; by way of atonement or satisfaction for sin? Nothing at all; see Job 7:20; but the other sense is best;
or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what dost thou unto him? As he is not hurt by a slight single sin, a failing or infirmity, an error or mistake, common to men, as the preceding word may signify; so not by greater sins, presumptuous ones, gross enormities, rebellions against God, overt acts of treason against the Almighty, and these multiplied and heaped up even unto heaven; for though by these the name of God is profaned and blasphemed, and he is dishonoured and despised, and his manifestative glory is eclipsed, or he has not the honour given him that is due unto him; yet his essential glory is untarnished, unsullied, and unhurt, no more than the sun by an eclipse; he is the same without any variableness or shadow of turning, as well as is over all blessed for ever. And, indeed, his manifestative glory in many instances receives a lustre, through his power, wisdom, and goodness, overruling the sins of men for the display of it; as the fall of the first Adam made way for the sending of Christ the Saviour, in which God has shown forth the exceeding riches of his grace; and as his mercy and grace are displayed in the pardon of sin, and his power and justice in the punishment of sin and sinners; and his patience and longsuffering in bearing with them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? - This should not be interpreted as designed to justify sin, or as saying that there is no evil in it, or that God does not regard it. That is not the point or scope of the remark of Elihu. His object is to show that God is not influenced in his treatment of his creatures as people are in their treatment of each other. He has no “interest” in being partial, or in treating them otherwise than they deserve. If they sin against him his happiness is not so marred that he is under any inducement to interpose “by passion,” or in any other way than that which is “right.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 35:6. If thou sinnest — God is not benefited by thy righteousness, nor injured by thy iniquity, howsoever multiplied it may be.
