Job 22:29
Good News Translation
God brings down the proud and saves the humble.

New Revised Standard Version
When others are humiliated, you say it is pride; for he saves the humble.

Contemporary English Version
When others are disgraced, God will clear their names in answer to your prayers.

New American Bible
For when they are brought low, you will say, “It is pride!” But downcast eyes he saves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

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Job 5:19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

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Psalm 9:2,3 I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high. . . .

Psalm 91:14-16 Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name. . . .

Psalm 92:9-11 For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. . . .

he shall

Proverbs 29:23 Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 18:9-14 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable: . . .

James 4:6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

the humble person.

Psalm 138:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Ezekiel 21:26,27 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high? . . .

Luke 1:52 He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways. 29For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.30The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:12
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

James 4:6
But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

1 Peter 5:5
In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Job 5:11
Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.

Job 36:7
He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

Job 22:28
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