🌪️WEB · Job 22:3

What does Job 22:3 mean?

"Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?"

— Job 22:3 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

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Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

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Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

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For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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