Job 34:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:3 : 3 For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye 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?
  • Job 9:22-23 : 22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.' 23 If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands, 31 Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
  • Ps 37:4 : 4 And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.
  • Job 21:14-16 : 14 And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. 15 What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' 16 Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
  • Job 22:17 : 17 Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
  • Job 27:10 : 10 On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

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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?

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

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

    15What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

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

  • Job 34:10
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    10Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And `from' the Mighty to do perverseness:

  • Job 35:2-3
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    2This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness `is' more than God's?'

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    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?

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    27He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

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

    10On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Job 15:3
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    3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

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

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    8And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.

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    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • Job 34:23
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    23For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,

  • Eccl 2:23-26
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    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

    26For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    7`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

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    26For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face,

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    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?

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    20For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.

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    13Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

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    14In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

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    19Doth He value thy riches? He hath gold, and all the forces of power.

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

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    8For a man like thyself `is' thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

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    10And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

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    3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

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    11He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

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

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    12I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

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    19Lo, this `is' the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

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

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    39What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

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    16And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?