Job 27:10
Good News Translation
They should have desired the joy he gives; they should have constantly prayed to him.

New Revised Standard Version
Will they take delight in the Almighty? Will they call upon God at all times?

Contemporary English Version
And that is what God should do, because they don't like him or ever pray.

New American Bible
If he delights in the Almighty and calls upon God constantly?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

delight

Job 22:26,27 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God. . . .

Psalm 37:4 Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

Psalm 43:4 And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Habakkuk 3:18 But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.

will he always

Psalm 78:34-36 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. . . .

Matthew 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but is only for a time: and when there ariseth tribulation and persecution because of the word, he is presently scandalized.

Luke 18:1 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,

Acts 10:2 A religious man, and fearing God with all his house, giving much alms to the people and always praying to God.

Ephesians 6:18 By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

Context
The Wicked Man's Portion
9Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him? 10Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?11I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.…
Cross References
Job 22:26
Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

Job 22:27
Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

Job 27:11
I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

Job 35:10
And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

Psalm 37:4
Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

Isaiah 58:14
Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Job 27:9
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