Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
In Context
26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4Jehoahaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Chronicles 33:13He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
Job 34:28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Psalms 56:12Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
Psalms 66:17I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms 116:1I love the LORD, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
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 →