Job 34:9

In 11 translations

BSB

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

KJV

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

WEB

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

ASV

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

LSV

For he has said, It does not profit a man || When he delights himself with God.

YLT

For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

DBY

For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.Elohim

DRC

For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

GNV

For he hath saide, It profiteth a man nothing that he should walke with God.

JPS

For he hath said: 'It profiteth a man nothing that he should be in accord with God.'

LXXE

For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.

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WLC

כִּֽי־אָ֭מַר לֹ֣א יִסְכָּן־גָּ֑בֶר בִּ֝רְצֹת֗וֹ עִם־אֱלֹהִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Μὴ γὰρ εἴπῃς, ὅτι οὐκ ἔσται ἐπισκοπὴ ἀνδρός, καὶ ἐπισκοπὴ αὐτῷ παρὰ Κυρίου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 21:14–16Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’ Still, their prosperity is not in their own…
• Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
• Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
• Job 9:22–23It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
• Psalms 37:4Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
• Job 9:30–31If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
• Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
• Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
• Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

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