Job 35:4

4 "I will answer you and your friends who are 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 fair? You say, 'God will show that I am right,'

3 but you also ask, 'What's the use? I don't gain anything by not sinning.'

4 "I will answer you and your friends who are with you.

5 Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.

6 If you sin, it does nothing to God; even if your sins are many, they do nothing to him.