Job 22:3
Is it any benefit to the Almighty if you're a good person? What does he gain if you do what's right?
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2“How can anyone be of help to God? Even wise people are only helpful to themselves.
4Does he correct you and bring charges against you because of your reverence?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that you look on the inside and are happy when we live right. Everything I have given willingly and with an honest heart, and now I have seen your people here giving happily and willingly to you.
Job 23:10Yet he always knows where I'm going. When he has proved me, I will come out shining like gold.
Psalms 39:1I told myself, “I will be careful in what I do, and not sin in what I say. I will keep my mouth shut when the wicked are around.”
Psalms 119:59As I think about my life, I turn to follow what you have said.
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are the one to profit from it; if you scoff, you alone will have to suffer the consequences.
Proverbs 11:20The Lord hates perverted minds, but is happy with those who live moral lives.
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 →