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Job 35

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Introduction

1  Comparison is not to be made with God, because our good or evil cannot extend unto him.
9  Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for want of faith.
Verse 2

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Thinkest
Matthew 12:36,37, Luke 19:22
My
9:17, 10:7, 16:17, 19:6,7, 27:2-6, 34:5, 40:8
Verse 3

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
what advantage
9:21,22, 10:15, 21:15, 31:2, 34:9, Psalms 73:13, Malachi 3:14
If I be cleansed from my sin
or, by it more than by my sin.
Verse 4

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
answer thee
Heb. return to thee words. thy.
34:8, Proverbs 13:20
Verse 5

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
Look
22:12, 25:5,6, 36:26-33, 37:1-5,22,23, 1 Kings 8:27, Psalms 8:3,4, Isaiah 40:22,23, 55:9
the clouds
36:29, 37:16, Nahum 1:3
Verse 6

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Proverbs 8:36, 9:12, Jeremiah 7:19
Verse 7

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
22:2,3, 1 Chronicles 29:14, Psalms 16:2, Proverbs 9:12, Romans 11:35
Verse 8

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
may hurt
Joshua 7:1-5, 22:20, Ecclesiastes 9:18, Jonah 1:12
may profit
42:8, Genesis 12:2, 18:24-33, 19:29, Psalms 106:23,30, Ezekiel 22:30, Acts 27:24, Hebrews 11:7
Verse 9

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
they make
24:12, 34:28, Exodus 2:23, 3:7,9, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Psalms 12:5, 43:2, 55:2,3, 56:1,2, Luke 18:3-7
the arm
40:9, Psalms 10:15
Verse 10

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
none
36:13, 1 Chronicles 10:13,14, 2 Chronicles 28:22,23, Isaiah 8:21
Where
Ecclesiastes 12:1, Isaiah 51:13, 1 Peter 4:19
my
32:22, 36:3, Isaiah 54:5
who
Psalms 42:8, 77:6, 119:62, 149:5, Acts 16:25
Verse 11

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
32:8, Genesis 1:26, 2:7, Psalms 94:12
Verse 12

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
There
Psalms 18:41, Proverbs 1:28, John 9:31
because
Psalms 73:6-8, 123:3,4, Isaiah 14:14-17
Verse 13

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
God
22:22-27, 27:8,9, Proverbs 15:8,29, 28:9, Ecclesiastes 5:1-3, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 11:11, Hosea 7:14, 8:2,3, Matthew 6:7, 20:21,22, James 4:3
regard
30:20, Psalms 102:17, Amos 5:22
Verse 14

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
thou sayest
9:11, 23:3,8-10
yet
9:19, 19:7, Psalms 77:5-10, 97:2, Isaiah 30:18, 54:17, Micah 7:7-9
trust
Psalms 27:12-14, 37:5,6, 62:5,8, Isaiah 50:10, Romans 8:33,34
Verse 15

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
because
9:14, 13:15, Numbers 20:12, Luke 1:20
he
that is, God. visited.
Psalms 89:32, Revelation 3:19
he
that is, Job. in great.
4:5, 30:15-31, Psalms 88:11-16, Hosea 11:8,9, Hebrews 12:11,12
Verse 16

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
3:1, 33:2,8-12, 34:35-37, 38:2

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