Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
BSB
ASV
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?
KJV
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
FRAGMENTS ON JOB 24.15-16 (253)
If you look at the heavens and contemplate the clouds, you will understand that you sinned. And what do you need to do? It is necessary that you approach the high priest and implore him to offer a victim for you. "If any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and he is the expiation of our sins." If you will do this, you will dissolve your numerous sins.
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him?.... All righteousness is of God that any creatures have.
Our religion brings no accession at all to his felicity. He is so far from being beholden to us that we are beholden to him for making us righteous and accepting our righteousness; and therefore we can demand nothing from him, nor have any reason to complain if we have not what we expect, but to be thankful that we have better than we deserve.
Elihu like Eliphaz (Job 22:2, 3, 12) shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of men respectively; it is themselves that they benefit by righteousness, or hurt by sin. behold the clouds, which are higher than thou--spoken with irony.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
leads to
“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Through
Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
leads to
Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Through
Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
leads to
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”