Job 22:4
Good News Translation
It is not because you stand in awe of God that he reprimands you and brings you to trial.

New Revised Standard Version
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

Contemporary English Version
Is he correcting you for worshiping him?

New American Bible
Is it because of your piety that he reproves you— that he enters into judgment with you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

reprove

Psalm 39:11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Psalm 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.

Psalm 80:16 Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

for fear

Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

will he enter

Job 9:19,32 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me. . . .

Job 14:3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

Job 16:21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 23:6,7 I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness. . . .

Job 34:23 For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.

Psalm 130:3,4 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. . . .

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.

Isaiah 3:14,15 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house. . . .

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
3What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted? 4Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:5And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?…
Cross References
Job 14:3
And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

Job 19:29
Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.

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

Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Job 22:3
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