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Job 34:9
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KJ21
For he hath said, ‘It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
ASV
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
AMP
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing When he takes delight and is pleased with God and obeys Him.’
AMPC
For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God and consent to Him.
BRG
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
CSB
For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”
CSBA
For he has said, ‘A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.’
CEB
Indeed he said, “No one is rewarded for delighting in God.”
CJB
since he thinks, ‘It profits a person nothing to be in accord with God’?
CEV
because he has said, “It doesn't pay to please God.”
DARBY
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
DRA
For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.
ERV
I know this because he says, ‘You will gain nothing if you try to please God.’
EASY
Job says, “If anyone tries to please God, it does not help them at all.”
EHV
because he said, “It is no benefit to a man when he takes pleasure in God.”
ESV
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
ESVUK
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
EXB
because he says, ‘It is no use to try to please God.’
GNV
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should walk with God.
GW
He says, ‘It doesn’t do any good to try to please God.’
GNT
He says that it never does any good to try to follow God's will.
HCSB
For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”
ICB
This is because he says, ‘It does not help a man to try and please God.’
ISV
Because he says, ‘There’s no profit for a man to find joy with God.’”
JUB
For he said, It shall profit a man nothing that he should conform his will with God.
KJV
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
AKJV
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
LSB
For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he is pleased with God.’
LEB
Indeed, he says, ‘A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.’
TLB
for he said, ‘Why waste time trying to please God?’
MSG
“We’ve all heard Job say, ‘I’m in the right, but God won’t give me a fair trial. When I defend myself, I’m called a liar to my face. I’ve done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.’ Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job? Do you think he’s spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd, So that now he’s parroting their line: ‘It doesn’t pay to try to please God’?
MEV
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself in God.’
NOG
He says, ‘It doesn’t do any good to try to please Elohim.’
NABRE
When he says, “There is no profit in pleasing God.”
NASB
For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he becomes friends with God.’
NASB1995
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing When he is pleased with God.’
NCB
Did he not state that no one derives any benefit by being pleasing to God?
NCV
because he says, ‘It is no use to try to please God.’
NET
For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
NIRV
He asks, ‘What good is it to try to please God?’
NIV
For he says, ‘There is no profit in trying to please God.’
NIVUK
For he says, “There is no profit in trying to please God.”
NKJV
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing That he should delight in God.’
NLV
For he has said, ‘A man gets nothing by trying to please God.’
NLT
He has even said, ‘Why waste time trying to please God?’
NRSVA
For he has said, “It profits one nothing to take delight in God.”
NRSVACE
For he has said, “It profits one nothing to take delight in God.”
NRSVCE
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’
NRSVUE
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’
OJB
For he hath said, It profiteth a gever nothing that he should please Elohim.
RGT
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should walk with God.’
RSV
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
RSVCE
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
TLV
For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
VOICE
In fact he even suggests, “A person receives no benefit from pleasing God.”
WEB
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
WYC
For he said, A man shall not please God, yea, though he run with God. (For he said, Yea, though one may run with God, he still shall not please God.)
YLT
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
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