Job 34:9
New International Version
For he says, ‘There is no profit in trying to please God.’

New Living Translation
He has even said, ‘Why waste time trying to please God?’

English Standard Version
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’

Berean Standard Bible
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

King James Bible
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

New King James Version
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing That he should delight in God.’

New American Standard Bible
“For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he becomes friends with God.’

NASB 1995
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing When he is pleased with God.’

NASB 1977
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing When he is pleased with God.’

Legacy Standard Bible
For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he is pleased with God.’

Amplified Bible
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing When he takes delight and is pleased with God and obeys Him.’

Christian Standard Bible
For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”

American Standard Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You said that a man is not just when he is a worshiper of God

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
because he has said, "It doesn't pay to please God."

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he hath said : Man shall not please God, although he run with him.

English Revised Version
For he hath said, it profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He says, 'It doesn't do any good to try to please God.'

Good News Translation
He says that it never does any good to try to follow God's will.

International Standard Version
Because he says, 'There's no profit for a man to find joy with God.'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
For he hath said: 'It profiteth a man nothing That he should be in accord with God.'

Literal Standard Version
For he has said, It does not profit a man | When he delights himself with God.

Majority Standard Bible
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

New American Bible
When he says, “There is no profit in pleasing God.”

NET Bible
For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'

New Revised Standard Version
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’

New Heart English Bible
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

Webster's Bible Translation
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

World English Bible
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

Young's Literal Translation
For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

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Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
8He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men. 9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’ 10Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.…

Cross References
Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?'

Job 35:3
For you ask, 'What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?'

Psalm 50:18
When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalm 73:13
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.


Treasury of Scripture

For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

It

Job 9:22,23,30,31
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked…

Job 21:14-16,30
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways…

Job 22:17
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

delight

Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Psalm 37:4
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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Job 34
1. Elihu accuses Job for charging God with injustice
10. God omnipotent cannot be unjust
31. Man must humble himself unto God
34. Elihu reproves Job














(9) It profiteth a man nothing.--Comp. what Job had said (Job 9:20-22; Job 9:30-31; Job 10:6-7; Job 10:14-15). Eliphaz had virtually said the same thing, though the form in which he cast it was the converse of this (see Job 22:3), for he had represented it as a matter of indifference to God whether man was righteous or not, which was, of course, to sap the foundations of all morality; for if God cares not whether man is righteous or not, it certainly cannot profit man to be righteous. On the other hand, Eliphaz had in form uttered the opposite doctrine (Job 22:21). . . . Verse 9. - For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. Again it must be remarked that Job had not said this. The nearest approach to it is to be found in Job 9:22, where this passage occurs: "It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked" (Revised Version). Elsewhere Job speaks, not generally, but of his own individual case, remarking that his righteousness has not saved him from calamity (Job 9:17, 18; Job 10:15; Job 17:9-17, etc.). And the fact is one that causes him the deepest perplexity.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

he has said,
אָ֭מַר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

‘It profits
יִסְכָּן־ (yis·kān-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5532: To be familiar with, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary

a man
גָּ֑בֶר (gā·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

nothing
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

that he should delight
בִּ֝רְצֹת֗וֹ (bir·ṣō·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt

in
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

God.’
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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