Job 22:29
For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
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In Context
28Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
30He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.
Cross References
Job 5:19He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.
Psalms 91:14Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
Psalms 138:6Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
Isaiah 57:15For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Ezekiel 21:26This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.
Luke 1:52He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.
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 →