Job Chapter 34 verse 9 Holy Bible

ASV Job 34:9

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
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BBE Job 34:9

For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
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DARBY Job 34:9

For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
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KJV Job 34:9

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
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WBT Job 34:9

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
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WEB Job 34:9

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'
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YLT Job 34:9

For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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). . . .