Job 22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
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In Context
2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgement?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
Psalms 39:1I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Psalms 119:59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Proverbs 11:20Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless 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 →