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Job 22 (NET)

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Job 22:1¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 22:2²“Is it to God that a strong man is of benefit? Is it to him that even a wise man is profitable?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 17:10 Gal 6:7-8 Job 35:6-8 Prov 3:13-18 Ps 16:2 Job 21:15 Eccl 7:11-12 Matt 5:29 Prov 4:7-9 Prov 9:12

Job 22:3³Is 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?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 7:1 Prov 15:8 Prov 11:1 Prov 12:22 Ps 147:10-11 1 Chr 29:17 Acts 24:16 Job 23:10-12 Mal 2:17 Prov 11:20

Job 22:4⁴Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 14:3 Ps 143:2 Isa 3:14-15 Rev 3:19 Job 16:21 Job 19:29 Job 23:6-7 Job 34:23 Job 7:12 Job 9:19

Job 22:5⁵Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:5-6 Ps 40:12 Job 11:14 Job 11:6 Job 15:31-34 Job 21:27 Job 32:3 Job 4:7-11 Ps 19:12

Job 22:6⁶“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:26 Ezek 18:12 Ezek 18:16 Deut 24:10-18 Job 24:3 Deut 24:6 Job 24:9-10 Job 31:19-20 Amos 2:8 Ezek 18:7

Job 22:7⁷You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 31:17 Isa 58:7 Matt 25:42 Ezek 18:16 Ezek 18:7 Deut 15:7-11 Isa 58:10 Job 31:31 Prov 11:24-25 Prov 19:17

Job 22:8⁸Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 9:15 1 Kgs 21:11-15 Isa 3:3 Job 13:8 Job 29:7-17 Job 31:34 Mic 7:3 Ps 12:8

Job 22:9⁹you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 22:7 Job 24:21 Job 24:3 Isa 10:2 Job 31:21 Deut 27:19 Exod 22:21-24 Ezek 30:22 Isa 1:17 Isa 1:23

Job 22:10¹⁰That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 13:21 Job 18:8-10 Job 6:4 1 Thess 5:3 Job 19:6 Prov 1:27 Ps 11:6 Prov 3:25-26

Job 22:11¹¹why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 3:54 Ps 69:1-2 Jonah 2:3 Job 19:8 Ps 124:4-5 Isa 8:22 Job 18:18 Job 18:6 Job 38:34 Job 5:14

Job 22:12¹²“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 5:2 Isa 66:1 Job 11:8 Ps 8:3-4 Isa 57:15 Ps 115:3 Ps 115:16

Job 22:13¹³But you have said, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 8:12 Ps 10:11 Ezek 9:9 Ps 73:11 Isa 29:15 Ps 59:7 Ps 94:7-9 Ps 64:5 Zeph 1:12

Job 22:14¹⁴Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 97:2 Ps 139:11-12 Ps 33:14 Jer 23:24 Job 26:9 Job 34:22 Luke 12:2-3 Ps 139:1-2

Job 22:15¹⁵Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 17:26-27 Gen 6:11-13 Gen 6:5

Job 22:16¹⁶men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:32 Gen 7:17-24 1 Pet 3:19-20 2 Pet 2:5 Gen 7:11 Matt 24:37-39 Ps 55:23 Eccl 7:17 Job 14:19 Matt 7:26-27

Job 22:17¹⁷They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 21:14-15 Ps 4:6 Rom 1:28 Isa 30:11 Job 21:10 Mal 3:14 Matt 8:29 Matt 8:34

Job 22:18¹⁸But it was he who filled their houses with good things— yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 21:16 Job 12:6 1 Sam 2:7 Acts 14:17 Jer 12:2 Ps 17:14 Ps 1:1 Acts 15:16

Job 22:19¹⁹The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 58:10 Ps 107:42 Ps 52:6 Job 9:23 Prov 11:10 Ps 48:11 Ps 97:8 Rev 18:20 Rev 19:1-3

Job 22:20²⁰‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:6-7 Gen 19:24 Job 1:16 Job 20:26 Job 15:30 Job 15:5-6 Job 20:18-19 Job 21:27-28 Job 4:7 Job 8:3-4

Job 22:21²¹“Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 28:9 Isa 27:5 Phil 4:7 Ps 34:10 Eph 2:14-17 2 Cor 5:20 Acts 10:36 John 17:3 2 Cor 4:6 Matt 5:25

Job 22:22²²Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 119:11 Job 23:12 Deut 4:1-2 Deut 6:6-9 Jer 15:16 Prov 4:21 Prov 4:4 Luke 2:19 Matt 12:35 Matt 13:52

Job 22:23²³If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 11:13-14 Zech 1:3 Job 8:5-6 Isa 55:6-7 Hos 14:1-2 2 Tim 2:19 Acts 26:20 Josh 7:13-16 Jude 1:20 Zech 5:3-4

Job 22:24²⁴and throw your gold in the dust— your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:28 Isa 13:12 1 Kgs 10:21 1 Kgs 22:48 2 Chr 1:5 2 Chr 9:10 2 Chr 9:27 Gen 10:29 Job 31:25 Ps 45:9

Job 22:25²⁵then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 33:6 Ps 16:5-6 Gen 15:1 Ps 18:2 Ps 84:11 Isa 41:10 Jas 2:5 2 Cor 6:10 Rom 8:31

Job 22:26²⁶Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 58:14 Ps 37:4 Job 27:10 Job 11:15 Rom 7:22 Ps 86:4 1 John 3:20-21 Ps 143:8 Song 2:3 Job 34:9

Job 22:27²⁷You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 58:9 1 John 5:14-15 Ps 116:1 Ps 50:14-15 Ps 91:15 Job 33:26 Ps 66:17-20 Eccl 5:4 Job 34:28 Ps 66:13-14

Job 22:28²⁸Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 21:22 Ps 90:17 Ps 20:4 Isa 30:21 Prov 4:18 John 8:12 Lam 3:37 Mal 4:2 Ps 112:4 Job 29:3

Job 22:29²⁹When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 4:6 Job 5:19-27 1 Pet 5:5 Luke 1:52 Matt 23:12 Ps 91:14-16 Isa 66:2 Luke 18:9-14 Ps 92:9-11 Isa 57:15

Job 22:30³⁰he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 42:7-8 Jas 5:15-16 Gen 18:26-32 Ps 18:20 Acts 27:24 Mal 1:9 Matt 17:19-20 Ps 24:4 Acts 19:15-16 Isa 58:12

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