What Does Job 35:7 Mean in the King James?
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Your alignment is not a payment that adds to God or puts him in your debt.
THE MEANING
Your alignment does not fill a lack in God; nothing from your hand supplies him. The question breaks the idea that rightness is a transaction whose value depends on what it earns from God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief this undoes is that God needs your righteousness or owes you because of it.
THE ROOT
צָדַקְתָּ
tsadaqta
GROWS FROM
צדק
Be aligned; be in the right.
“righteous” in this verse is tsadaqta. The root holds rightness and the conduct of a right person in one family; צְדָקָה (tsedaqah) can also mean charitable giving. The question asks whether even right action and generosity make God their beneficiary.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness, justice, alignment.
צֶדֶק
It shows that being righteous belongs to a wider word family about what is rightly aligned.
tsedaqah: Righteousness; an act of charitable giving.
צְדָקָה
Its association with giving sharpens the question: even generosity does not supply God.
tsaddiq: A righteous or aligned person.
צַדִּיק
It names the person whose alignment is being considered in the verse.
תִּתֵּן
tittēn
GROWS FROM
נתן
Give, put, set.
“givest” in this verse is tittēn. The root carries both giving and placing. The verse asks whether anything a person places before God adds to what God has; its parallel question about what God takes from a human hand makes the issue one of divine dependence.
ALSO GROWS
yitten: He gives.
יִתֵּן
This form from the same root echoes the verse’s question about giving.
mattan: A gift.
מַתָּן
It makes explicit the idea of something given, while the verse asks whether such a gift supplies God.
THE PATTERN
Human rightness adds nothing to God’s fullness, while its effects are real among people.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;THE THREAD
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.The same Hebrew root, צָדַק (tsadaq, be aligned or in the right), names the righteousness whose benefit reaches another person in the next verse. Your alignment does not add to God, yet its effects are real among people.
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