Job 35:4

4 I will answer you and ¹your 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 to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God, ’

3 that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off 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, which are higher than you.

6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Cross References

• 1. 35:4 ch. 34:8, 36