Job 22:2 - English Standard Version 2016

² “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to 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 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

Job 22:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 22:3

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

Job 7:17

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

Psalm 16:2

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

Deuteronomy 10:13

and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?