Job 22:4
2 “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
3 Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
- KJV
- Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
- WEB
- Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
- ASV
- Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?
- DARBY
- Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?
- BLB
- For your fear does He rebuke you and enter against you into judgment?
- ÅB
- Er det for din gudsfrykts skyld han refser deg eller går i rette med deg?
- OTB
- Er det på grunn av din ærefrykt at Han retter på deg
og går i rette med deg? - B1930
- Er det for din gudsfrykts skyld han refser dig eller går i rette med dig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 14:3
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Read in contextPsalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:14–15
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Read in contextRevelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Read in contextPsalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Read in contextJob 34:23
For God need not examine a man further or have him approach for judgment.
Read in contextPsalms 80:16
Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
Read in contextJob 9:32
For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
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