Job 22:23-30

23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be blessed again. So remove evil from your house.
24 Throw your gold nuggets into the dust and your fine gold among the rocks in the ravines.
25 Then the Almighty will be your gold and the best silver for you.
26 You will find pleasure in the Almighty, and you will look up to him.
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will keep your promises to him.
28 Anything you decide will be done, and light will shine on your ways.
29 When people are made humble and you say, 'Have courage,' then the humble will be saved.
30 Even a guilty person will escape and be saved because your hands are clean."

Job 22:23-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 22

This chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid thereby under obligation to him, whereas he was not, Job 22:1-3; and as if he reproved and chastised him, because of his fear of him, whereas it was because of his sins, Job 22:4,5; an enumeration of which he gives, as of injustice, oppression, cruelty to the poor, and even of atheism and infidelity, for which snares and fears were around him, and various calamities, Job 22:6-14; and compares his way and course of life to that of the men of the old world, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and suggests that his end would be like theirs, unless he repented, Job 22:15-20; and then concludes with an exhortation to him to return to God by repentance, and to reform, when he should see happy times again, and enjoy much outward and inward prosperity, and be an instrument of doing much good to many, Job 22:21-30.

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