3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?


In Context

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2 |Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

Job 22:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:3[Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:3What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:3What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to him , that thou makest thy ways perfect?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:3Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways perfect?