Job 22:28
Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
27You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
29For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
Cross References
Psalms 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 90:17Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
Psalms 112:4For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Isaiah 30:21And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
Malachi 4:2But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
John 8:12Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
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 →