Job 34:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Job 35:3

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

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?

Psalm 37:4

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

Job 27:10

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

Job 22:17

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

Job 21:30

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

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.

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?

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.