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 it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"?

3 For you ask, "What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"

4 I will answer you and your friends with you.

5 Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

6 If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?