Job 21:15
Modern Translations
New International Version
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'

New Living Translation
Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us to pray?’

English Standard Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

Berean Study Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

New American Standard Bible
‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we plead with Him?’

NASB 1995
'Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we entreat Him?'

NASB 1977
‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’

Amplified Bible
‘Who [and what] is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what would we gain if we plead with Him?’

Christian Standard Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what will we gain by pleading with him? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what will we gain by pleading with Him?"

Contemporary English Version
What do we gain from praying and worshiping you?

Good News Translation
They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

International Standard Version
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

NET Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'
Classic Translations
King James Bible
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

New King James Version
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’

King James 2000 Bible
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

New Heart English Bible
What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

World English Bible
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

American King James Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

American Standard Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

A Faithful Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?'

Darby Bible Translation
What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?

Young's Literal Translation
What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

Smith's Literal Translation
What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And how is it helpful to us if we pray to him?”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they were saying: ‘Who is God that we would serve him, or what do we gain that we should seek him?’

Lamsa Bible
Moreover, they say, Who is God, that we should serve him? And what would we gain, that we should pray to him?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?'--

Brenton Septuagint Translation
What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
















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