Job 35:4

4 I myself {will give answer to you} and [to] 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] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?

3 If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

4 I myself {will give answer to you} and [to] your friends with you.

5 "Look at [the] heavens, and see; and observe [the] clouds [that] 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?

Footnotes

• [a] Emphatic personal pronoun
• [b] Literally "will return you words"