Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
In Context
1And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:13to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?
Job 35:6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Psalms 16:2Thou [my soul] hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;
Proverbs 4:7The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and profitable to them that see the sun.
Luke 17:10Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:2-5
Third Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? Eliphaz here insinuates that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but it was a… Read the whole commentary →