Job 34:9

WEB

⁹For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

KJV

⁹For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

BSB

⁹For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

FBV

⁹He's even said, ‘What benefit is there in being God's friend?’

Extra References

Job 35:3

³that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

¹⁴^[+] They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways. ¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’ ¹⁶Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 9:22-23

²²“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked. ²³If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Malachi 3:14

¹⁴You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

Psalms 37:4

⁴Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Job 9:30-31

³⁰If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye, ³¹yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Job 27:10

¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

Job 21:30

³⁰that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?

Job 22:17

¹⁷who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’