Job 22:27
Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them:
2 Chronicles 33:13And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God.
Job 34:28So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.
Psalms 56:12In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:
Psalms 66:17I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.
Psalms 116:1I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly.
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 →