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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
כי-אמר לא יסכן-גבר-- ברצתו עם-אלהים
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ky-Amr lA yskn-gbr-- brTStv `m-Alhym

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
dixit enim non placebit vir Deo etiam si cucurrerit cum eo

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Authorized (King James) Version   
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
New King James Version   
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing That he should delight in God.’
21st Century King James Version   
For he hath said, ‘It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
Darby Bible Translation   
For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For he hath said : Man shall not please God, although he run with him.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For he hath said, it profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
God's Word   
He says, 'It doesn't do any good to try to please God.'
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For he has said, "A man gains nothing when he becomes God's friend."
International Standard Version   
Because he says, 'There's no profit for a man to find joy with God.'"
NET Bible   
For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'
New American Standard Bible   
"For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing When he is pleased with God.'
New International Version   
For he says, 'There is no profit in trying to please God.'
New Living Translation   
He has even said, 'Why waste time trying to please God?'
Webster's Bible Translation   
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
The World English Bible   
For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'
EasyEnglish Bible   
Job says, “If anyone tries to please God, it does not help them at all.”
Young‘s Literal Translation   
For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
New Life Version   
For he has said, ‘A man gets nothing by trying to please God.’
The Voice Bible   
In fact he even suggests, “A person receives no benefit from pleasing God.”
Living Bible   
for he said, ‘Why waste time trying to please God?’
New Catholic Bible   
Did he not state that no one derives any benefit by being pleasing to God?
Legacy Standard Bible   
For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he is pleased with God.’
Jubilee Bible 2000   
For he said, It shall profit a man nothing that he should conform his will with God.
Christian Standard Bible   
For he has said, “A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.”
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God and consent to Him.
New Century Version   
because he says, ‘It is no use to try to please God.’
The Message   
“We’ve all heard Job say, ‘I’m in the right, but God won’t give me a fair trial. When I defend myself, I’m called a liar to my face. I’ve done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.’ Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job? Do you think he’s spent too much time in bad company, hanging out with the wrong crowd, So that now he’s parroting their line: ‘It doesn’t pay to try to please God’?
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
because he said, “It is no benefit to a man when he takes pleasure in God.”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’
Good News Translation®   
He says that it never does any good to try to follow God's will.
Wycliffe Bible   
For he said, A man shall not please God, yea, though he run with God. (For he said, Yea, though one may run with God, he still shall not please God.)
Contemporary English Version   
because he has said, “It doesn't pay to please God.”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For he has said, “It profits one nothing to take delight in God.”
Common English Bible © 2011   
Indeed he said, “No one is rewarded for delighting in God.”
Amplified Bible © 2015   
“For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing When he takes delight and is pleased with God and obeys Him.’
English Standard Version Anglicised   
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
When he says, “There is no profit in pleasing God.”
New American Standard Bible   
For he has said, ‘It is of no use to a man When he becomes friends with God.’
The Expanded Bible   
because he says, ‘It is no use to try to please God.’
Tree of Life Version   
For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
Revised Standard Version   
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’
New International Reader's Version   
He asks, ‘What good is it to try to please God?’
BRG Bible   
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Complete Jewish Bible   
since he thinks, ‘It profits a person nothing to be in accord with God’?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For he has said, “It profits one nothing to take delight in God.”
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For he hath said, It profiteth a gever nothing that he should please Elohim.
Names of God Bible   
He says, ‘It doesn’t do any good to try to please Elohim.’
Modern English Version   
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself in God.’
Easy-to-Read Version   
I know this because he says, ‘You will gain nothing if you try to please God.’
International Children’s Bible   
This is because he says, ‘It does not help a man to try and please God.’
Lexham English Bible   
Indeed, he says, ‘A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.’
New International Version - UK   
For he says, “There is no profit in trying to please God.”