Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God.
New American Standard Bible
When he
King James Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Holman Bible
when he becomes God’s friend.”
International Standard Version
Because he says, "There's no profit for a man to find joy with God.'"
A Conservative Version
For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.
American Standard Version
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
Amplified
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
When he takes delight and is pleased with God and obeys Him.’
Bible in Basic English
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
Darby Translation
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
Julia Smith Translation
For he said, It will not profit a man in delighting himself with God.
King James 2000
For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, he says, 'A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.'
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'
NET Bible
For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'
New Heart English Bible
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
The Emphasized Bible
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.
Webster
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.'
Youngs Literal Translation
For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
Interlinear
Ratsah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 34:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Asserts God's Justice
8 who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men? 9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God. 10 Therefore listen to me, O man of heart; far be it from God to commit iniquity; and from the Almighty, to do wrong.
Cross References
Job 35:3
For you say, What will it benefit you? And, What good shall I have more than if I had sinned?
Job 9:22-23
It is One, therefore I said, He is consuming the perfect and the wicked.
Job 9:30-31
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself also in Jehovah, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is vain to serve God; and, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?
Job 21:14-16
And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways;
Job 21:30
that the wicked is kept for the day of calamity? They shall be brought to the day of wrath.
Job 22:17
who said to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them?
Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call on God?