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Can a man be profitable to God?(A)
    Can a wise man be profitable to him?
Does it please the Almighty that you are just?(B)
    Does he gain if your ways are perfect?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:3 Another irony: God will “gain,” because he will have been proved right in his claim to the satan that Job is “perfect.”

“Can(A) a man be profitable to God,
Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?

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