Job 22:2
To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
In Context
1And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: —
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:13to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?
Job 35:6If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
Psalms 16:2Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou [art];' My good [is] not for thine own sake;
Proverbs 4:7The first thing [is] wisdom — get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance, And an advantage [it is] to those beholding the sun.
Luke 17:10'So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say — We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do — we have done.'
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 →