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Job 22:3
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Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous?Does he profit if you perfect your behavior?
Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Does it help the Almighty for you to be good? Does he gain anything if you are innocent?
Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?
"Is it any pleasure or joy to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it of benefit to Him that you make your ways perfect?
"Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, Or gain if you make your ways blameless?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous,Or profit if you make your ways perfect?
Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
If you were completely sinless, that would still mean nothing to God All-Powerful.
Does Shaddai gain if you are righteous? Does he profit if you make your ways blameless?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect?
What do you profit by trying to make it seem that your ways are perfect because you are afraid?
Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?
Is it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?
What pleasure hath God in yt thou art rightuous? Or what doth it profite him, yt thy waies are perfecte?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?
Is it any advantage to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to Him, that thou makest thy ways blameless?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gaine to him, that thou makest thy waies perfite?
Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect?
For what matters it to the Lord, if thou wert blameless in thy works? or is it profitable that thou shouldest perfect thy way?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or is it gain [to him], that you make your ways perfect?
[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?
Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous? Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect?
Is the All-powerful pleased if you are right and good? Is it of any use to Him if your ways were perfect?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Is it a pleasure to the Almighty, that thou shouldst be righteous? or any profit, that thou shouldst be blameless in thy ways?
What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?
"Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, Or profit if you make your ways perfect?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
any pleasure: 1 Chronicles 29:17, Psalms 147:10, Psalms 147:11, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 11:20, Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 15:8, Malachi 2:17, Philippians 4:18
thou makest: Job 23:10-12, Psalms 39:1, Psalms 119:3-6, Psalms 119:59, Acts 24:16, 2 Corinthians 7:1
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:33 - perfect Job 35:7 - General Job 41:11 - Who Psalms 16:2 - my goodness Proverbs 9:12 - General Luke 17:10 - General
Cross-References
Then Abraham gathered together Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house. He also gathered all the slaves he had bought. Every man and boy in Abraham's house was gathered together, and they were all circumcised. Abraham circumcised them that day, just as God had told him to do.
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and water and gave them to Hagar. She carried them and left with her boy. She left that place and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
In the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took Isaac and two servants with him. He cut the wood for the sacrifice. Then they went to the place where God told them to go.
After they traveled three days, Abraham looked up, and in the distance he saw the place where they were going.
I will surely bless you and give you as many descendants as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they will take from their enemies.
Then Abraham went back to his servants. They all traveled back to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed there.
Without wasting any time, I hurried back to obey your commands.
Every time you find work to do, do it the best you can. In the grave there is no work. There is no thinking, no knowledge, and there is no wisdom. And we are all going to the place of death.
"Those who love their father or mother more than they love me are not worthy of me. And those who love their son or daughter more than they love me are not worthy of me.
"If you come to me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more than your own life!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous?.... It is not; the Lord indeed takes pleasure in his people, not as sinners, but as righteous; and as they are considered such in Christ, he is well pleased for his righteousness' sake, and with it, being agreeable to his nature, will, and law; and with his people in Christ, in whom they are accepted, having imputed the righteousness of his Son unto them, and so they stand before him unblamable and irreprovable, and he takes pleasure in the work of his own hands upon them, called the good pleasure of his will, in the new man formed after his image in righteousness and true holiness, in the graces of his Spirit, and in the exercise of them, faith, hope, love, humility, fear of God, c. it is a pleasure to him to hear their prayers and praises, and to observe their ready and cheerful obedience to his will but then all this gives him no new pleasure, or adds anything to the complacency of his mind; he would have had as much delight and pleasure within himself, if there had never been an holy angel in heaven, or a righteous man on earth; he has no such pleasure in either as to be made more happy thereby, or so as to receive any "gain" or profit from it, as the next clause explains it. Some render it, "that thou justifiest thyself" k, or "that thou art just", or "seemest to be righteous to thyself" l; a self-righteous person is not pleasing to God; it is no pleasure to him when a man seeks for justification by his own works, or reckons them his righteousness; the publican that confessed his sin was rather justified with God than the Pharisee that applauded his own righteousness; such that are conceited of their own righteousness, and despise others, are an offence to God, a "smoke in his nose", Isaiah 65:5; for the righteousness of such is not real righteousness in the account of God, and according to his law; it has only the shadow and appearance of one, but is not truly so; and besides, to seek righteousness this way is going contrary to the revealed will of God, to the Gospel scheme of justification by faith in Christ's righteousness, without the works of the law, and is a setting aside his righteousness, and frustrating and making null and void the death of Christ, and therefore can never be pleasing in the sight of God:
or [is it] gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect? no man's ways are perfect before God, even the best of men have detects in their works, and failings in their walk and conversations: some men's ways are indeed clean in their own eyes, and perfect in their own conceit; and if Eliphaz thought Job such an one, he was mistaken, see Job 9:20; there are others, who are in a sense unblamable in their walk and conversation; that is, are not guilty of any notorious crime, but exercise a conscience void of offence towards God and man, walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; and yet this is no "gain" to God; for what does such a man give to him? or what does he receive of his hands? see Job 35:7. This was indeed Job's case and character.
k כי תצדק "quod justifices te", Junius Tremellius. l "Quum Justus es apud teipsum", Schmidt "quod tibi justus esse videris", Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous? - This is the same sentiment which was advanced in the previous verse. The meaning is, that it can be no advantage to God that a man is righteous. He is not dependent on man for happiness, and cannot be deterred from dealing justly with him because he is in danger of losing anything. In this sense, it is true. God “has” pleasure in holiness wherever it is, and is pleased when people are righteous; but it is not true that he is dependent on the character of his creatures for his own happiness, or that people can lay him under obligation by their own righteousness. Eliphaz applies this general truth to Job, probably, because he understood him as complaining of the dealings of God with him, as if he had laid God under obligation by his upright life. He supposes that it was implied in the remarks of Job, that he had been so upright, and had been of so much consequence, that God “ought” to have continued him in a state of prosperity. This supposition, if Job ever had it, Eliphaz correctly meets, and shows him that he was not so profitable to God that he could not do without him. Yet, do people not often feel thus? Do ministers of the gospel not sometimes feel thus? Do we not sometimes feel thus in relation to some man eminent for piety, wisdom, or learning? Do we not feel as if God could not do without him, and that there was a sort of necessity that he should keep him alive? Yet, how often are such people cut down, in the very midst of their usefulness, to show
(1) that God is not dependent on them; and
(2) to keep them from pride, as if they were necessary to the execution of the divine plans; and
(3) to teach his people their dependence on “Him,” and not on frail, erring mortals. When the church places its reliance on a human arm, God very often suddenly knocks the prop away.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 22:3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty — Infinite in his perfections, he can neither gain nor lose by the wickedness or righteousness of men.
