Job 34:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’”
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“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 34:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
- Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
- Job 22:3Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
- Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
- Psalms 37:4Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Isaiah 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
- 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?
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