Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
In Context
26For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.
28Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.
2 Chronicles 33:13And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
Job 34:28So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
Psalms 56:12\56:11\In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.
Psalms 66:17My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.
Psalms 116:1I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:22-30
The Good Counsel of Eliphaz; Encouragements to Return to God. ( b. c. 1520.) 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have… Read the whole commentary →