Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
In Context
8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
Cross References
Job 9:22It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Isaiah 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
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 →