Job 22:29
When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Cross References
Job 5:19He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
Psalms 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Psalms 138:6For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
Isaiah 57:15For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Ezekiel 21:26the Lord GOD says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.
Luke 1:52He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.
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 →