Job 22:3
Is it a delight to the Mighty One || That you are righteous? Is it gain, || That you make your ways perfect?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2“Is a man profitable to God, || Because a wise man is profitable to himself?
4Because of your reverence || Does He reason [with] you? He enters with you into judgment:
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17And I have known, my God, that You are trying the heart, and desire uprightness; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these; and now, I have seen Your people who are found here with joy to offer willingly to You.
Job 23:10For He has known the way with me, || He has tried me—I go forth as gold.
Psalms 39:1TO THE OVERSEER. FOR JEDUTHUN. A PSALM OF DAVID. I have said, “I observe my ways, || Against sinning with my tongue, || I keep a curb for my mouth, || While the wicked [is] before me.”
Psalms 119:59I have reckoned my ways, || And turn back my feet to Your testimonies.
Proverbs 9:12If you have been wise, you have been wise for yourself, || And you have scorned—you bear [it] alone.
Proverbs 11:20The perverse of heart are an abomination to YHWH, || And the perfect of the way [are] His delight.
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 →