Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
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- Job 21:14–16 They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’ Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- Job 35:3 that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
- Malachi 3:14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?