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Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elihu addresses Job to counter Job’s arguments about his own moral standing, situating the exchange within a debate over whether human conduct impacts God. The words — צָ֭דַקְתָּ (tzadakta) translates literally as “you have been righteous,” and יִקָּֽח (yiqkach) translates literally as “does he receive.” The thread — The motif that human actions do not benefit or harm God runs through Job 22:2 and Proverbs 9:12, while Psalm 16:2 states that the psalmist lacks any good apart from the Lord. Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to recognize that righteousness or wickedness neither adds to God nor diminishes Him, but only affects the human who performs the action.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Cross-references
- Job 22:2 “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
- Psalms 16:2 I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
- Proverbs 9:12 If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
- Luke 17:10 So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
- Romans 11:35 “Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
- 1 Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.