For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Please thee, since thou punishest the guiltless. (Menochius)
If I sin. Job had not said so, but it seemed to follow from his expressions, chap. xxi. 7. See chap. xxii. 3. Whether sin be committed and punished, or not, what does it profit God? (Calmet)
His sovereign perfections require that he should not let sin pass unnoticed, and Job never entertained an idea to the contrary.
16. If the whole course of the book is attended to, blessed Job is proved to have said none of these things. But haughty men, as we have also said before, are wont to have this peculiarity, that while they go on in violent invective, they also speak falsely in their inveighing, and that, when they cannot justly blame the things which exist, they reprehend, in their falsehood, those which do not exist.
