the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 34:9
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He has even said, ‘Why waste time trying to please God?'
For he hath said, it profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
For he has said, It profits a [noble] man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
because he says, ‘It is no use to try to please God.'
For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'
"For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing When he takes delight and is pleased with God and obeys Him.'
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'
For he seide, A man schal not plese God, yhe, thouy he renneth with God.
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.'
because he has said, "It doesn't pay to please God."
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
since he thinks, ‘It profits a person nothing to be in accord with God'?
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
I know this because he says, ‘You will gain nothing if you try to please God.'
For he hath said: 'It profiteth a man nothing that he should be in accord with God.'
For hee hath said, It profiteth a man nothing, that he should delight himselfe with God.
For he has said, ‘A man gets nothing by trying to please God.'
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.'
For he hath saide, It profiteth a man nothing that he should walke with God.
For he has said that a man is not justified because he fears God.
He says that it never does any good to try to follow God's will.
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.
For he hath said: Man shall not please God, although he run with him.
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'
For he hath sayde, It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God.
For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.
For he has said, “A man gains nothingwhen he becomes God’s friend.”
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.'
Indeed, he says, ‘A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.'
For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
For he saieth: Though a ma be good, yet is he naught before God.
"For he has said, 'It is of no use to a man When he becomes friends with God.'
For he has said, "It profits a man nothing That he should delight in God.'
"For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing When he is pleased with God.'
For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a manWhen he is pleased with God.'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
It: Job 9:22, Job 9:23, Job 9:30, Job 9:31, Job 21:14-16, Job 21:30, Job 22:17, Job 35:3, Malachi 3:14
delight: Job 27:10, Psalms 37:4
Reciprocal: Genesis 25:32 - and what Job 21:15 - and what Job 22:26 - shalt thou Job 33:27 - it profited Job 34:36 - his answers Psalms 73:13 - Verily Isaiah 58:14 - delight Romans 8:33 - Who
Cross-References
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
And I will make thee swear by the Lord , the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he hath said,.... Not plainly and expressly, but consequentially; what it was thought might be inferred from what he had said, particularly in Job 9:22;
it profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God; in his house and ordinances, ways and worship; he may as well indulge himself in the pleasures of sin, and in the delights of the world, if God destroys the perfect and the wicked, as Job had said in the place referred to; if this be the case, it is in vain to serve God, and pray unto him, or keep his ordinances; which are the language and sentiments of wicked men, and according to which they act, see Job 21:14 Malachi 3:14. Mr. Broughton renders it,
"when he would walk with God;''
and so the Targum,
"in his walking with God;''
and another Targum,
"in his running with God:''
though he walks and even runs in the way of his commandments, yet it is of no advantage to him; or he does the will of God, as Aben Ezra; or seeks to please him or be acceptable to him, and to find grace in his sight. Whereas though love and hatred are not known by prosperity and adversity, but both come to good and bad men, which seems to be Job's meaning in the above place, from whence this inference is deduced; yet it is certain that godliness is profitable to all, 1 Timothy 4:8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself in God - That is, there is no advantage in piety, and in endeavoring to serve God. It will make no difference in the divine dealings with him. He will be treated just as well if he lives a life of sin, as if he undertakes to live after the severest rules of piety. Job had not used precisely this language, but in Job 9:22, he had expressed nearly the same sentiment. It is probable, however, that Elihu refers to what he regarded as the general scope and tendency of his remarks, as implying that there was no respect paid to character in the divine dealings with mankind. It was easy to pervert the views which Job actually entertained, so as to make him appear to maintain this sentiment, and it was probably with a special view to this charge that Job uttered the sentiments recorded in Job 21:0; see the notes at that chapter.
