Job: God Will Punish the Wicked

Job 21:15

In 11 translations

BSB: Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
KJV: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
WEB: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
ASV: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
LSV: What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?
YLT: What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
DBY: What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
DRC: Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
GNV: Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
JPS: What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?' —
LXXE: What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: מַה־שַׁדַּ֥י כִּֽי־נַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ וּמַה־נּ֝וֹעִ֗יל כִּ֣י נִפְגַּע־בּֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br: Τί ἱκανὸς, ὅτι δουλεύσομεν αὐτῷ; καὶ τίς ὠφέλεια, ὅτι ἀπαντήσομεν αὐτῷ;

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Exodus 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Malachi 1:13–14You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD. “But cursed is…
Proverbs 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
Psalms 12:4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
Isaiah 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
Hosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
John 16:24Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

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