Job 34:9
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9 For (A)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
That he should delight in God.’
Job 35:3
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3 For (A)you say,
‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
Malachi 3:14
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14 (A)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
Job 9:22-23
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22 It is all one thing;
Therefore I say, (A)‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’
23 If the scourge slays suddenly,
He laughs at the plight of the innocent.
Psalm 37:4
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Job 27:10
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10 (A)Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call on God?
Job 22:17
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Footnotes
- Job 22:17 LXX, Syr. us
Job 21:30
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30 (A)For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom;
They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.
Job 21:14-16
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14 (A)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15 (B)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And (C)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
16 Indeed [a]their prosperity is not in their hand;
(D)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Footnotes
- Job 21:16 Lit. their goal
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