World English Bible
Job 21:15
“What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?”
Verse in context — Job 21
13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
14
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?
16
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
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