Job 34:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:3 : 3 For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?
  • Job 9:22-23 : 22 This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. 23 If the scourge should suddely slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane, 31 Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shal make me filthie.
  • Ps 37:4 : 4 And delite thy selfe in the Lorde, and hee shall giue thee thine hearts desire.
  • Job 21:14-16 : 14 They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him? 16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
  • Job 21:30 : 30 But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
  • Job 22:17 : 17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.
  • Job 27:10 : 10 Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 22:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

    3Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

  • 9What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

  • Job 21:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

    15Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

    16Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.

  • 10Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of wisedome, God forbid that wickednesse should be in God, and iniquitie in the Almightie.

  • Job 35:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?

    3For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me fro my sinne?

  • 14Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?

  • 27He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me,

  • Job 27:9-10
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    9Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

    10Will he set his delight on the Almightie? will he call vpon God at all times?

  • 12I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

  • 3Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?

  • 22Therefore I see that there is nothing better then that a man shoulde reioyce in his affaires, because that is his portion. For who shal bring him to see what shalbe after him?

  • 21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

  • 8Which goeth in the companie of them that worke iniquitie, and walketh with wicked men?

  • 3What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?

  • 23For he will not lay on man so much, that he should enter into iudgement with God.

  • Eccl 2:23-26
    4 verses
    72%

    23For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

    24There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, & delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.

    25For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

    26Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

  • 7Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.

  • 26And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

  • 3Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?

  • 20(5:19) Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.

  • 13Lest ye should say, We haue found wisedome: for God hath cast him downe, and no man.

  • 14(7:16) In the day of wealth be of good comfort, and in the day of affliction consider: God also hath made this contrary to that, to the intent that man shoulde finde nothing after him.

  • 13Why doest thou striue against him? for he doeth not giue account of all his matters.

  • 19Wil he regard thy riches? he regardeth not golde, nor all them that excel in strength.

  • 6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • 11For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.

  • 13Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.

  • 8Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

  • 10Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

  • Eccl 2:1-2
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    70%

    1I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

    2I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

  • 3The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.

  • 11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.

  • 17What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?

  • 12I will declare thy righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not profite thee.

  • 9Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?

  • 19Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde.

  • 17Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.

  • 4The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.

  • 39Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.

  • 8There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.

  • 16(5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?