Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For he has said, “A man gains nothing
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 King James verseion

For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
a man
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

Context Readings

Elihu Asserts God's Justice

8 Who goes in company with evildoers and walks with the wicked? 9 “For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
When he is pleased with God.’
10 Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

Cross References

Job 35:3

If you ask: 'What advantage do I have? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'

Job 9:22-23

It is all one thing. Therefore I say: God destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 9:30-31

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

Psalm 37:4

Be happy with Jehovah and he will provide you with the desires of your heart.

Malachi 3:14

You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'

Job 21:14-16

They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.'

Job 21:30

They say the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?

Job 22:17

They said to God: 'Leave us alone.' They asked: 'What can the Almighty do to us?'

Job 27:10

Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

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