Job 22:29
When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
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In Context
28Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
30He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”
Cross References
Job 5:19He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
Psalms 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
Psalms 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
Ezekiel 21:26This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.
Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
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 →