English Standard Version
Job 22:26
26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Job 22:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
- New International Version (NIV)Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For then you will have your delight in the Almighty, And lift up your face to God.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Then you will take delight in the Almighty and look up to God.
Context of Job 22:26
24if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, 25then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. 27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. 28You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:26 word by word
כִּי־אָ֭ז עַל־שַׁדַּ֣י תִּתְעַנָּ֑ג וְתִשָּׂ֖א אֶל־אֱל֣וֹהַּ פָּנֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:26
- Job 27:10Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- Job 34:9For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'
- Psalms 37:4Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- Isaiah 58:14then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
- Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
- Job 11:15Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.
- Psalms 25:1To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
- Psalms 86:4Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
- Psalms 143:8Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
- 1 John 3:20for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Commentaries on Job 22:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26For then shalt thou have thy delight - Thou shalt know, from thy temporal prosperity, that God favors 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-30Verses 21-30 The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had hitherto not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. The counsel Eliphaz here gives is good, though, as to Job, it was built upon a false supposition that he was a stranger and enemy to God. Let us beware of slandering our brethren; and if it be our lot to suffer in this manner, let us remember how Job was treated; yea, how Jesus was reviled, that we…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. lift up ... face, &c.--repeated from Zophar (Job 11:15).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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