Księga Hioba 22:26

Nowa Biblia Gdańska

Tak, wtedy będziesz się rozkoszować Wszechmocnym i ku prawdziwemu Bogu podniesiesz swoje oblicze.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Tedy rozkochasz się w Wszechmocnym, a podniesiesz ku Bogu oblicze twoje.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Tedy się w Wszechmocnym rozkochasz, a podniesiesz ku Bogu oblicze twoje.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Wtedy naprawdę On będzie twoją rozkoszą, ku Niemu będziesz wznosił swoje oblicze.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Tedy się w Wszechmocnym rozkochasz, a podniesiesz ku Bogu oblicze twoje.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Wtedy będziesz się rozkoszować we Wszechmocnym i podniesiesz do Boga swoje oblicze.

Biblia Warszawska
Wtedy Wszechmocny będzie twoją radością i podniesiesz ku Bogu swoje oblicze.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt thou: Job 27:10, Job 34:9, Psalms 37:4, Song of Solomon 2:3, Isaiah 58:14, Romans 7:22

lift up: Job 11:15, Psalms 25:1, Psalms 86:4, Psalms 143:8, 1 John 3:20, 1 John 3:21

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 17:6 - his heart Psalms 119:6 - shall I John 15:7 - ye shall Philippians 3:1 - rejoice

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For then shall thou have thy delight in the Almighty,.... In the perfections of his nature, in the works of his hands, in his word and worship, in communion with him, and in the relation he stands in to his people as their covenant God and Father; this would be the case when Job should be more and better acquainted with God, and with the law or doctrine his month, and the words of his lips, and should return unto him with his whole heart; and when his affections should be taken off of all earthly riches; when he should look upon gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brook, and God should be to him his gold and his silver; then, and not till then, could he have true delight and complacency in God:

and shalt lift up thy face unto God; in prayer, as Sephorno interprets it, with an holy confidence, boldness, and cheerfulness; as a believer in Christ may, having on his righteousness, and having his heart sprinkled from an evil conscience by his blood; such an one can appear before God, and lift up his face to him, as without spot, so without confusion, shame, and blushing, without a load of guilt upon him, without fear of wrath or punishment, and of being repulsed; see

Job 11:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty - Instead of complaining of him as you now do, you would then find calm enjoyment in contemplating his character and his moral government. This is a correct account of the effects of reconciliation. He who becomes truly “acquainted” with God has pleasure in his existence and attributes; in his law and administration. No longer disposed to complain, he confides in him when he is afflicted; flees to him when he is persecuted; seeks him in the day of prosperity; prefers him to all that this world can give, and finds his supremest joys in turning away from all created good to hold communion with the Uncreated One.

And shalt lift up thy face unto God - An emblem of prosperity, happiness, and conscious innocence. We hang our face down when we are conscious of guilt; we bow the head in adversity. When conscious of uprightness; when blessed with prosperity, and when we have evidence that we are the children of God, we look up toward heaven. This was the natural condition of human beings - made to look upward, while all other animals look grovelling on the earth. So Milton describes the creation of man:

There wanted yet the master-work, the end

Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone

And brute as other creatures, but endued

With sanctity of reason, might erect

His stature, and upright with front serene

Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence

Magnanimous to correspond with heaven,

But grateful to acknowledge whence his good

Directed in devotion, to adore

And worship God supreme, who made him chief

Of all his works.

Paradise Lost, B. vii.

The Classic reader will instantly recollect the description in Ovid:

Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terram;

Os homini sublime dedit; coelumque tueri

Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.

Meta. 1:84.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:26. For then shalt thou have thy delight — Thou shalt know, from thy temporal prosperity, that God favours thee; and for his bounty thou shalt be grateful. How different is this doctrine from that of St. Paul and St. John! "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus." "Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father!" "The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God." "We glory in tribulation also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us." "We love him because he first loved us." Tribulation itself was often a mark of God's favour.