Job 34:9 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.`

English ASV

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.

English Amplified

For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God and consent to Him.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God and consent to Him.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.

English EASY 2024

Job says, “If anyone tries to please God, it does not help them at all.”

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I know this because he says, 'You will gain nothing if you try to please God.'

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

He says that it never does any good to try to follow God's will.

English God's Word - GW 1995

He says, 'It doesn't do any good to try to please God.'

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For he has said, "A man gains nothing when he becomes God's friend."

English KJV 1611

For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

English LSB

For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he is pleased with God.’

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing When he is pleased with God.'

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

When he says, "It profits a man nought that he is pleasing to God."

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

He asks, 'What good is it to try to please God?'

English NIV

For he says, 'It profits a man nothing when he tries to please God.'

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

He has even said, `Why waste time trying to please God?'

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For he has said, 'It profits one nothing to take delight in God.'

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

for he said, 'Why waste time trying to please God?'

English Tyndale 1537

For he sayeth: Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.

Job 34:9 — Compare Translations