Job 21:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?

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  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.
  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing to delight himself in God.
  • Mal 1:13-14 : 13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness it is! and you have sneered at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought what was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? says the LORD. 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the heathen.
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
  • John 16:24 : 24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be complete.
  • Job 35:3 : 3 For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek Me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

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