Job 34:9
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 34 connects to 10 cross-references. Elihu defends God's justice against Job's claim that God has removed his right. He argues that God is incorruptible, that he governs earth's nations without partiality, and that he sees all human ways. To deny God's justice is to speak …
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For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
Referensi Silang
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed …
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.