Job 22:27
Thou wilt make entreaty unto him, and he will hear thee, and thy vows wilt thou pay.
Leeser Tanakh
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
26For then wilt thou have in the Almighty thy delight, and thou canst lift up unto God thy face.
28And if thou decree a thing, it will be fulfilled unto thee; and upon thy ways the light will shine.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4And Jehoachaz besought the Lord; and the Lord hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Chronicles 33:13And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the [true] God.
Job 34:28Bringing before them the cry of the indigent, and the cry of the afflicted which he had to hear.
Psalms 56:12(56:13) Upon me, O God, [rest] thy vows: I will pay thanksgiving offerings unto thee.
Psalms 66:17Unto him I cried with my mouth, and a song of extolling was on my tongue.
Psalms 116:1It is lovely to me that the Lord heareth my voice, 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 →