Job 22:2
“Is a man profitable to God, || Because a wise man is profitable to himself?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
In Context
1And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:13to keep the commands of YHWH, and His statutes which I am commanding you today, for good for you?
Job 35:6If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, || What do you do to Him?
Psalms 16:2You have said to YHWH, “You [are] my Lord”; My goodness [is] not above You;
Proverbs 4:7The first thing [is] wisdom—get wisdom, || And with all your getting get understanding.
Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, || And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.
Luke 17:10So also you, when you may have done all the things directed you, say, We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do we have done.”
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 →