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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 man be of benefit to God?(A)
    Can even a wise person benefit him?(B)
What pleasure(C) would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?(D)
    What would he gain if your ways were blameless?(E)

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Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

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