Job 22:21-30
Revised Standard Version
21 “Agree with God, and be at peace;
thereby good will come to you.
22 Receive instruction from his mouth,
and lay up his words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself,[a]
if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,
24 if you lay gold in the dust,
and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,
25 and if the Almighty is your gold,
and your precious silver;
26 then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,
and lift up your face to God.
27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you;
and you will pay your vows.
28 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,
and light will shine on your ways.
29 For God abases the proud,[b]
but he saves the lowly.
30 He delivers the innocent man;[c]
you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
Job 22:21-30
American Standard Version
21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:
[a]Thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Receive, I pray thee, [b]the law from his mouth,
And lay up his words in thy heart.
23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up,
[c]If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
24 And lay thou thy [d]treasure [e]in the dust,
And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
25 And the Almighty will be thy [f]treasure,
And [g]precious silver unto thee.
26 For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty,
And shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee;
And thou shalt pay thy vows.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee;
And light shall shine upon thy ways.
29 When they [h]cast thee down, thou shalt say, There is lifting up;
And [i]the humble person he will save.
30 He will deliver even him that is not innocent:
Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.
Footnotes
- Job 22:21 Or, as otherwise read, Thereby shall thine increase be good.
- Job 22:22 Or, instruction
- Job 22:23 Or, Thou shalt put away . . . And shalt lay up
- Job 22:24 Hebrew ore.
- Job 22:24 Or, on the earth
- Job 22:25 Hebrew ore.
- Job 22:25 Or, precious silver shall be thine
- Job 22:29 Or, are made low
- Job 22:29 Hebrew him that is lowly of eyes.
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