Job 22:2 - Tree of Life Version

“Can a man be useful to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he that is wise is profitable to himself. [Ps. 16:2; Luke 17:10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

Common English Bible

Can a human being be useful to God? Can an intelligent person bring profit?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 22:2 Tagairtí Cros

Job 21:15

Who is Shaddai that we should serve Him? What would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Job 22:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded saying:

Job 22:3

What pleasure is it to Shaddai if you are righteous? Or what gain if your ways are blameless?

Job 7:17

“What is mankind, that You magnify him, that You set Your heart on him,

Psalm 16:2

I said to Adonai: “You are my Lord— I have no good apart from You.”

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you scoff, you bear it alone.

Matthew 5:29

And if your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away! It is better for you that one part of your body should be destroyed, than that your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.

Luke 17:10

So you too, when you’ve done everything you are commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves. We have done only what we were supposed to do.’”

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, since He Himself gives to everyone life and breath and all things.

Deuteronomy 10:13

to keep the mitzvot of Adonai and His statutes that I am commanding you today, for your own good?