Other translations
American Standard Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Darby Bible Translation
What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
God's Word
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what will we gain by pleading with 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?'
New American Standard Bible
'Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we entreat Him?'
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?'
Webster's Bible Translation
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
The World English Bible
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
EasyEnglish Bible
We do not need to serve the Almighty God. If we pray to him, there is nothing he can do to help us.”
Young‘s Literal Translation
What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
New Life Version
Who is the All-powerful, that we should serve Him? What would we have more than we have if we prayed to Him?’
The Voice Bible
Who is the Highest One anyway, and why should we serve Him? What can we possibly gain by asking favors of Him? Isn’t He generous enough already?”
Living Bible
“‘Who is Almighty God?’ they scoff. ‘Why should we obey him? What good will it do us?’
New Catholic Bible
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what would we gain by praying to him?’
Legacy Standard Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we profit if we entreat Him?’
Jubilee Bible 2000
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?
Christian Standard Bible
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what will we gain by pleading with him?”
Amplified Bible © 1954
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
New Century Version
Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’
The Message
“It’s not you I’m complaining to—it’s God. Is it any wonder I’m getting fed up with his silence? Take a good look at me. Aren’t you appalled by what’s happened? No! Don’t say anything. I can do without your comments. When I look back, I go into shock, my body is racked with spasms. Why do the wicked have it so good, live to a ripe old age and get rich? They get to see their children succeed, get to watch and enjoy their grandchildren. Their homes are peaceful and free from fear; they never experience God’s disciplining rod. Their bulls breed with great vigor and their cows calve without fail. They send their children out to play and watch them frolic like spring lambs. They make music with fiddles and flutes, have good times singing and dancing. They have a long life on easy street, and die painlessly in their sleep. They say to God, ‘Get lost! We’ve no interest in you or your ways. Why should we have dealings with God Almighty? What’s there in it for us?’ But they’re wrong, dead wrong—they’re not gods. It’s beyond me how they can carry on like this!
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
“Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him, and what benefit do we gain from pleading with him?”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Good News Translation®
They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.
Wycliffe Bible
Who is Almighty God, that we serve him? and what profiteth it to us, if we pray (to) him?
Contemporary English Version
What do we gain from praying and worshiping you?
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?”
Common English Bible © 2011
who is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what can we gain if we meet him?”
Amplified Bible © 2015
‘Who [and what] is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what would we gain if we plead with Him?’
English Standard Version Anglicised
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain by praying 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?’
The Expanded Bible
Who is ·the Almighty [Shaddai] that we should serve him? What would we gain by ·praying to [interceding with] him?’
Tree of Life Version
Who is Shaddai that we should serve Him? What would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Revised Standard Version
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
New International Reader's Version
Who is the Mighty One? Why should we serve him? What would we get if we prayed to him?’
BRG Bible
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Complete Jewish Bible
What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?”
Orthodox Jewish Bible
What is Shaddai, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we importune Him?
Names of God Bible
Who is Shadday that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?’
Modern English Version
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
Easy-to-Read Version
And they say, ‘Who is God All-Powerful? We don’t need to serve him! It will not help to pray to him!’
International Children’s Bible
Who is God All-Powerful that we should serve him? We would gain nothing by praying to him.’
Lexham English Bible
Who is Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?’
New International Version - UK
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?”