Job 21:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

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  • Exod 5:2 : 2 and Pharaoh saith, `Who `is' Jehovah, that I hearken to His voice, to send Israel away? I have not known Jehovah, and Israel also I do not send away.'
  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
  • Mal 1:13-14 : 13 And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,' And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah. 14 And cursed `is' a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king `am' I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name `is' revered among nations!
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
  • John 16:24 : 24 till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
  • Job 35:3 : 3 For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who `is' Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I `am' Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

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  • 14And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

  • 17Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

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    13Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'

    14Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

    15And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

  • 9For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

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    2To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?

    3Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?

  • 16Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

  • 2And what `is' the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

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    3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

    4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

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    9His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

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  • 9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

  • 1Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

  • 14Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

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    21For what `is' his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?

    22To God doth `one' teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?

  • 17What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

  • 3Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

  • 2Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

  • 3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

  • 2Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, `is' their God.

  • 3Jehovah, what `is' man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?

  • 13Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?

  • 7By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

  • 23The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

  • 31Who doth declare to his face his way? And `for' that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?

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    13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

    14What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

  • 9And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God?

  • 2Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished.

  • 14How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?

  • 3Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

  • 4I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

  • 17`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

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    12There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

    13Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

  • 21Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

  • 13Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'

  • 20Doth man make for himself gods, And they -- no gods?

  • 17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

  • 13Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?

  • 2Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

  • 3For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

  • 9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

  • 12Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why `is' this -- ye are altogether vain?