Job 34:9
For he has said, It does not profit a man || When he delights himself with God.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
In Context
8And he has traveled for company || With workers of iniquity, || So as to go with men of wickedness.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is the same thing, therefore I said, || He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
Job 21:14And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired.
Job 21:30That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a day of wrath.
Job 22:17Those saying to God, Turn aside from us, || And what does the Mighty One do to them?
Job 35:3For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and You do not know. Behold, you find pleasure in the day of your fast, || And exact 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 →