Job 21:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 21:15 —

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Cross-References

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Exodus 5:2
And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Job 34:9
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Malachi 1:13-14
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. …
Isaiah 30:11
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Psalms 12:4
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Topics

Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Capital and Labor Care Carnal Mindedness Character Constancy Covetousness Decision

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. (Compare Jr 2:20; Pr 30:9, Margin, Ex 5:2). what profit--(Job 35:3; Mal 3:14; Psa 73:13). Sinners ask, not what is right, but what is for the profit of self. They forget, “If religion cost self something, the want of it will cost self infinitely more.”