Job 34:9 “For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in G…”

Job 34:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

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Cross references

“It”

Job 21:14–16 Job 35:3 Malachi 3:14 Job 21:30 Job 22:17 Job 9:22

Job 21:14–16 · BSB

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Job 35:3 · BSB

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

Malachi 3:14 · BSB

You 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 21:30 · BSB

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Job 22:17 · BSB

They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 9:22 · BSB

It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

“delight”

Job 27:10 Psalm 37:4

Job 27:10 · BSB

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

Psalm 37:4 · BSB

Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

10Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

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