Tree of Life Version
Job 22:2
2“Can a man be useful to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
Job 22:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
- New International Version (NIV)“Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Can a man be profitable to God, Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?
Context of Job 22:2
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded saying: “Can a man be useful to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him? 3What pleasure is it to Shaddai if you are righteous? Or what gain if your ways are blameless? 4Is it because of your reverence that He corrects you and He brings judgment against you?
Read all of Job 22Job 22:2 word by word
הַלְאֵ֥ל יִסְכָּן־גָּ֑בֶר כִּֽי־יִסְכֹּ֖ן עָלֵ֣ימוֹ מַשְׂכִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 22:2
- Job 35:6If you sin, how does it affect Him? If your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
- Psalms 16:2I said to Adonai: “You are my Lord— I have no good apart from You.”
- Luke 17:10So you too, when you’ve done everything you are commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves. We have done only what we were supposed to do.’”
- Job 21:15Who is Shaddai that we should serve Him? What would we gain if we pray to Him?’
- Deuteronomy 10:13to keep the mitzvot of Adonai and His statutes that I am commanding you today, for your own good?
- Proverbs 3:13Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.
- Proverbs 4:7Wisdom is supreme—acquire wisdom! With all your acquisitions, get understanding.
- Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you scoff, you bear it alone.
- Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, and even better for those who see the sun.
- Matthew 5:29And if your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away! It is better for you that one part of your body should be destroyed, than that your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.
- Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived—God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also shall reap.
Commentaries on Job 22:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Can a man be profitable unto God - God does not afflict thee because thou hast deprived him of any excellency. A man may be profitable to a man, but no man can profit his Maker. He has no interest in thy conduct; he does not punish thee because thou hast offended and deprived him of some good. Thy iniquities are against justice, and justice requires thy punishment.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Can a man be profitable unto God? - Can a man confer any favor on God, so as to lay him under obligation? Eliphaz supposes that Job sets up a “claim” to the favor of God, because he was of service to him, or because God had something to fear if he was cut off. He maintains, therefore, that a man can confer no favor on God, so as to lay him under obligation. God is independent and supreme. He has nothing to gain if man is righteous - he has nothing to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3Eliphaz did not understand that God would delight in Job’s right relationship with him, just as God does with every righteous person (1:8; 2:3; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 147:10–11; Proverbs 11:1, 20; 12:22). God would also benefit from Job’s steady faith, which exposed the lie in Satan’s challenge (Job 1:9–12; 2:4–6). Job firmly claimed that he was blameless (23:10–12). God said the same thing (1:1, 8; 2:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. as he that is wise--rather, yea the pious man profiteth himself. So "understanding" or "wise"--pious (Da 12:3, 10; Psa 14:2) [Michaelis].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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