Job 22:3
For what matters it to the Lord, if thou wert blameless in thy works? or is it profitable that thou shouldest perfect thy way?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?
4Wilt thou maintain and plead thine own cause? and will he enter into judgment with thee?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17And I know, Lord, that thou art he that searches the hearts, and thou lovest righteousness. I have willingly offered all these things in simplicity of heart; and now I have seen with joy thy people here present, willingly offering to thee.
Job 23:10For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.
Psalms 39:1For the end, a Psalm of David.
Proverbs 9:12c and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.
Proverbs 11:20Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.
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 →