Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
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- Job 21:14–16 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’ Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
- Job 35:3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
- Malachi 3:14 You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?