Job 22:3
What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
4Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.
Job 23:10But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:
Psalms 39:1Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David.
Proverbs 9:12If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.
Proverbs 11:20A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.
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 →