Job 22:30
He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
In Context
29For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
Cross References
Job 42:7And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Job 42:9And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
Isaiah 58:12And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
Malachi 1:9And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
Acts 19:15And the evil spirit, answering, said to them, I have knowledge of Jesus, and of Paul, but who are you?
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 →