Job 22:27
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 surely shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Aram oppressed them. —
2 Chronicles 33:13And he prayed unto Him; and He was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD He was God.
Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him, and He heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Psalms 56:12(56-13) Thy vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank-offerings unto Thee.
Psalms 66:17I cried unto Him with my mouth, and He was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms 116:1I love that the LORD should hear my voice and my supplications.
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 →