Job 22:30
He delivers the one [who is] not innocent, || Indeed, he has been delivered || By the cleanness of your hands.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
In Context
29For they have made low, || And you say, Lift up. And He saves the bowed down of eyes.
Cross References
Job 42:7And it comes to pass after YHWH’s speaking these words to Job, that YHWH says to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger has burned against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, like My servant Job.
Job 42:9And they go—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite—and do as YHWH has spoken to them; and YHWH accepts the face of Job.
Psalms 24:4The clean of hands, and pure of heart, || Who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, || Nor has sworn to deceit.
Isaiah 58:12And they have built the ancient ruins from you, || You raise up the foundations of many generations, || And one calls you, Repairer of the breach, || Restorer of paths to rest in.
Malachi 1:9“And now, please appease the face of God, || And He favors us; This has been from your own hand, || Does He accept your faces?” said YHWH of Hosts.
Acts 19:15and the evil spirit, answering, said, “I know Jesus, and I am acquainted with Paul; and you—who are you?”
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 →