Job 22:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Can a man be profitable unto God, As he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

Common English Bible

² Can a human being be useful to God? Can an intelligent person bring profit?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?

Job 22:2 Tagairtí Cros

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 22:1

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Job 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?

Job 7:17

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him,

Psalm 16:2

I have said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.

Proverbs 9:12

If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself: And if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Matthew 5:29

And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.

Luke 17:10

Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.

Acts 17:25

neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Deuteronomy 10:13

to keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?