Job 21:15
What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? 1 And what profit is there that we should approach him? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
In Context
14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; 1 I desire not to know thy ways. 1
16For their good things were in their hands, 1 But he regards not the works of the ungodly. 1
Cross References
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is he that I should hearken to his voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.
Job 34:9For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, 1 Whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord. 1
Psalms 12:4Lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: 1 My persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved. 1
Proverbs 30:9lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity: I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.
Malachi 1:13And ye said, These services are troublesome: therefore I have utterly rejected them with scorn, saith the Lord Almighty: and ye brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then ye should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? saith the Lord Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →