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New Living Translation

Job 35:6

If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Guilt;   Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;   Sin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If you sin, how does it affect God?If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?
Hebrew Names Version
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
King James Version
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
English Standard Version
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
New Century Version
If you sin, it does nothing to God; even if your sins are many, they do nothing to him.
New English Translation
If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?
Amplified Bible
"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?
New American Standard Bible
"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?
World English Bible
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?
Legacy Standard Bible
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
Berean Standard Bible
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Contemporary English Version
and think! Do your sins hurt God?
Complete Jewish Bible
If you sin, how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many, how do you affect him?
Darby Translation
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Easy-to-Read Version
If you sin, it does not hurt God. Even if your sins are too many to count, that does nothing to God.
George Lamsa Translation
If you sin, what difference does it make to him? And if your iniquities be multiplied, what does it matter to him?
Good News Translation
If you sin, that does no harm to God. If you do wrong many times, does that affect him?
Lexham English Bible
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Literal Translation
If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou synnest, what dost thou vnto him? Yf thine offences be many, how gettest thou his fauoure?
American Standard Version
If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Bible in Basic English
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against Him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?
King James Version (1611)
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or it thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou vnto him?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?
English Revised Version
If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thou synnest `ayens hym, what schalt thou anoye hym? and if thi wickidnessis ben multiplied, what schalt thou do ayens hym?
Update Bible Version
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you to him?
Webster's Bible Translation
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?
New King James Version
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
New Life Bible
If you have sinned, what does that do to God? If you have done many wrongs, what does that do to Him?
New Revised Standard
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
Revised Standard Version
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Young's Literal Translation
If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

Contextual Overview

1 Then Elihu said: 2 "Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God'? 3 For you also ask, ‘What's in it for me? What's the use of living a righteous life?' 4 "I will answer you and all your friends, too. 5 Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you. 6 If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him? 7 If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him? 8 No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 8:36, Proverbs 9:12, Jeremiah 7:19

Reciprocal: Job 22:2 - a man Proverbs 14:21 - that despiseth Luke 17:10 - General Acts 17:25 - is

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 28:19
He named that place Bethel (which means "house of God"), although it was previously called Luz.
Genesis 28:22
And this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I will present to God a tenth of everything he gives me."
Genesis 35:22
While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it. These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:
Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant, were Gad and Asher. These are the names of the sons who were born to Jacob at Paddan-aram.
Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him?.... Sin is expressly said to be against God, Psalms 51:4; it is contrary to his nature, as any opposites can be to each other: it is against his law, a breach and violation of it; and so against his supreme legislative power and authority, and a contempt of it; it is what he is angry with and is provoked by, being what he hates and abhors, and is abominable in his sight. But then he cannot be supposed to be so affected with it to be ruffled and discomposed, or his peace be disturbed, and his happiness in the least broke in upon; for affections are only attributed to him after the manner of men; much less is he so affected hereby as to be hurt or in danger of being destroyed, nor even of being dethroned: men can no more reach him by any hostile action of theirs, such as sin is, than they can reach the sun and stop its course, lessen its light or pluck it from its orbit. Or, "what canst thou work for him?" as Mr. Broughton; by way of atonement or satisfaction for sin? Nothing at all; see Job 7:20; but the other sense is best;

or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what dost thou unto him? As he is not hurt by a slight single sin, a failing or infirmity, an error or mistake, common to men, as the preceding word may signify; so not by greater sins, presumptuous ones, gross enormities, rebellions against God, overt acts of treason against the Almighty, and these multiplied and heaped up even unto heaven; for though by these the name of God is profaned and blasphemed, and he is dishonoured and despised, and his manifestative glory is eclipsed, or he has not the honour given him that is due unto him; yet his essential glory is untarnished, unsullied, and unhurt, no more than the sun by an eclipse; he is the same without any variableness or shadow of turning, as well as is over all blessed for ever. And, indeed, his manifestative glory in many instances receives a lustre, through his power, wisdom, and goodness, overruling the sins of men for the display of it; as the fall of the first Adam made way for the sending of Christ the Saviour, in which God has shown forth the exceeding riches of his grace; and as his mercy and grace are displayed in the pardon of sin, and his power and justice in the punishment of sin and sinners; and his patience and longsuffering in bearing with them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? - This should not be interpreted as designed to justify sin, or as saying that there is no evil in it, or that God does not regard it. That is not the point or scope of the remark of Elihu. His object is to show that God is not influenced in his treatment of his creatures as people are in their treatment of each other. He has no “interest” in being partial, or in treating them otherwise than they deserve. If they sin against him his happiness is not so marred that he is under any inducement to interpose “by passion,” or in any other way than that which is “right.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 35:6. If thou sinnest — God is not benefited by thy righteousness, nor injured by thy iniquity, howsoever multiplied it may be.


 
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