Job 34:9
For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
In Context
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
Job 21:14And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Job 22:17who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?
Job 35:3That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? [And], What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.
Matthew Henry on Job 34:2-10
The Address of Elihu. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 2 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. 3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. 5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. 6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? 8 Which goeth in… Read the whole commentary →