Job 22:29

When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

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In The King James Version

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

In Context

28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.

30The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.

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Cross References

Job 5:19He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

Psalms 91:14Because he hath loued me, therefore will I deliuer him: I will exalt him because hee hath knowen my Name.

Psalms 138:6For the Lord is high: yet he beholdeth the lowly, but the proude he knoweth afarre off.

Isaiah 57:15For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart.

Ezekiel 21:26Thus saith the Lord God, I will take away the diademe, and take off the crowne: this shalbe no more the same: I wil exalt the humble, and will abase him that is hie.

Luke 1:52Hee hath put downe the mighty from their seates, and exalted them of lowe degree.

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 →

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