A moment in scripture
Job 34:9
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For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
- Job 34:8
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
- Job 34:10
Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
- Job 34:11
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.