Job 22:21
Do but become acquainted with him, and be at peace: thereby will happiness come unto thee.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
In Context
20“Is not he destroyed that rose up against us, and hath not the fire consumed what they had left?”
22Do but accept instruction from his mouth, and lay up his saying in thy heart.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Isaiah 27:5If he but take hold of my strength, make peace with me; make peace with me.”
Matthew Henry on Job 22:16-21
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire… Read the whole commentary →