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Job 34:9

Justice

7 What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

10 Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

11 For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.

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BSB
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
KJV
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
WEB
For he has said, ‘It profits 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.
DARBY
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
BLB
For he has said, ‘Nothing does it profit a man that he should delight in God.’
ÅB
For han har sagt: En mann har intet gagn av at han holder vennskap med Gud.
OTB
For han har sagt: ‘Det er ingen fordel for en mann
i å forsøke å behage Gud.’
B1930
For han har sagt: En mann har intet gagn av at han holder vennskap med Gud.

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