Job 34:9
For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath travelled 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, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'
Job 21:14And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
Job 21:30That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
Job 22:17Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
Job 35:3For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
Isaiah 58:3'Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.
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 →