Job 22:27
You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
26Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.
28You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4But Jehoahaz petitioned the face of the Lord, and the Lord heeded him. For he saw the anguish of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them.
2 Chronicles 33:13And he petitioned and begged him intently. And he heeded his prayer, and led him back to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. And Manasseh realized that the Lord himself was God.
Job 34:28so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.
Psalms 56:12Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.
Psalms 116:1Alleluia. All nations, praise the Lord. All peoples, praise him.
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 →