Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 35:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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Role in This Section
Job 35:6 advances the thought unit with the words “If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto….” Elihu presses the unit's question through “If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto…”, a line that belongs to Elihu Argues Human Conduct Affects People, Not God's Need.
Read It With
- Job 35:1–35:8
Read Job 35:6 with 35:1–35:8. Read alone, “If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu restates Job's questions about the profit of righteousness, points to the heavens, and says sin or righteousness directly harms or benefits other humans rather than supplying God.
Why It Needs Context
Job 35:6 depends on 35:1–35:8; isolating “If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Argues Human Conduct Affects People, Not God's Need.”
Read Job 35:1–8 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 35:1–35:8 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Argues Human Conduct Affects People, Not God's Need.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
Verse 2. 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
Verse 3. 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Verse 4. 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Verse 5. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Verse 6. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Verse 7. 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Verse 8. 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 35:1–35:8 — Elihu Argues Human Conduct Affects People, Not God's NeedSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 35:1–35:8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 35:1–35:8
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