Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
In Context
8who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
Cross References
Job 9:22“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out 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 you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Isaiah 58:3‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress 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 →