Job 34:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God and consent to Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁹ Indeed he said, “No one is rewarded for delighting in God.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For he has said, "Man will not please God, even if he should travel with him."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

Job 34:9 Cross References

Job 21:30

that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

Job 22:17

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

Job 22:3

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

Job 27:10

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

Job 35:3

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Psalm 37:4

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 50:18

If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

Psalm 73:13

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?