Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.'

Interlinear

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

Context Readings

Elihu Asserts God's Justice

8 And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness. 9 For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.' 10 Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Mighty to do perverseness:


Cross References

Job 35:3

For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

Job 9:22-23

It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.'

Job 9:30-31

If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

Psalm 37:4

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

Malachi 3:14

Ye have said, 'A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

Job 21:14-16

And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

Job 21:30

That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

Job 22:17

Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

Job 27:10

On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

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