Job 35:4

4 "I will answer * you, And your friends with you.

Job 35:4 Meaning and Commentary

Job 35:4

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
] Meaning not his three friends, as the Septuagint version expresses it; for they were not on the side of Job, and of the same sentiment with him, but rather on the side of Elihu; especially Eliphaz, who expresses much the same sentiment he does, ( Job 22:2 Job 22:3 ) ; but all that were of the same mind with Job, whether present or absent, or in whatsoever part of the world; the answer he should return to him would serve for them all, and sufficiently confute such a bad notion of God, let it be embraced by whomsoever.

Job 35:4 In-Context

2 "Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's '?

3 "For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?'

4 "I will answer you, And your friends with you.

5 "Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds -they are higher than you.

6 "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?