Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.
16Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!
Cross References
Exodus 5:2Then said Pharaoh, Who is Yahweh that I should hearken to his voice, to let Israel go? I know not Yahweh, and certainly. Israel, will I not let go!
Job 34:9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.
Psalms 12:4Them who say—With our tongue, will we prevail, our lips, are our own, who is our master?
Proverbs 30:9Lest I be full, and deny, and say—Who is Yahweh? or lest I be impoverished and steal, and do violence to the Name of my God.
Isaiah 45:19Not in secret, have I spoken In a place of the earth that is dark,—I have not said unto the seed of Jacob, In a waste, seek ye me,—I, am Yahweh, Speaking the thing that is right, Declaring the things that are just.
Malachi 1:13And ye have said, Lo! what a weariness! And ye have snuffed at Me, saith Yahweh of hosts, and have brought in the torn and the lame and the sick, thus have ye brought the present,— Could I accept it at your hand? saith Yahweh.
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 →