Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
a man
Job 35:6-8 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be …
Psalm 16:2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness …
Luke 17:10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which …
as he that, etc. or, if he may be profitable, doth his good success depend thereon?
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should …
Deuteronomy 10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command …
Proverbs 3:13-18 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
Proverbs 4:7-9 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all …
Proverbs 9:12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, …
Ecclesiastes 7:11,12 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to …
Matthew 5:29 And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you…
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
any pleasure
1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in …
Psalm 147:10,11 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure …
Proverbs 11:1,20 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight…
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly …
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have …
Philippians 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus …
thou makest
Job 23:10-12 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come …
Psalm 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: …
Psalm 119:3-6,59 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways…
Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void …
2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
reprove
Psalm 39:11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty …
Psalm 76:6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast …
Psalm 80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke …
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
for fear
Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?
will he enter
Job 9:19,32 If I speak of strength, see, he is strong: and if of judgment, who …
Job 14:3 And does you open your eyes on such an one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 16:21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!
Job 23:6,7 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put …
Job 34:23 For he will not lay on man more than right; that he should enter …
Psalm 130:3,4 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand…
Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight …
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, …
Isaiah 3:14,15 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, …
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
not thy
Job 4:7-11 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where …
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Job 15:5,6,31-34 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty…
Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully …
Job 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they …
thine
Psalm 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
Psalm 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have …
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
For thou
Job 24:3,9 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's …
Exodus 22:26 If you at all take your neighbor's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver …
Deuteronomy 24:10-18 When you do lend your brother any thing, you shall not go into his …
Ezekiel 18:7,12,16 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, …
Amos 2:8 And they lay themselves down on clothes laid to pledge by every altar…
stripped, etc. Heb. stripped the clothes of the naked
Job 24:10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the …
Job 31:19,20 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering…
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
not given
Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
Deuteronomy 15:7-11 If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any …
Psalm 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures …
Proverbs 11:24,25 There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds …
Proverbs 19:17 He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he …
Isaiah 58:7,10 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …
Ezekiel 18:7,16 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, …
Matthew 25:42 For I was an hungered, and you gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and …
Romans 12:20 Therefore if your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him …
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
widows
Job 24:3,21 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's …
Job 29:12,13 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Job 31:16-18,21 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the …
Exodus 22:21-24 You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers …
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, …
Psalm 94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Isaiah 1:17,23 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the …
Isaiah 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right …
Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
Luke 18:3-5 And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, …
arms
Psalm 10:15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness …
Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Ezekiel 30:22 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king …
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
snares
Job 18:8-10 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a snare…
Job 19:6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible …
sudden
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …
Job 13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
Proverbs 1:27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as …
Proverbs 3:25,26 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
darkness
Job 18:6,18 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be …
Job 19:8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, …
Lamentations 3:2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Joel 2:2,3 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick …
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: …
abundance
Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves …
Psalm 69:1,2 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul…
Psalm 124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
Jonah 2:3 For you had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and …
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
How. or, What. doth God know
Psalm 10:11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he …
Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: …
Psalm 73:11 And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalm 94:7-9 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob …
Ezekiel 8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of …
Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah …
Zephaniah 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem …
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
cut down
Job 15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Psalm 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: …
Psalm 102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the middle of my days: your …
Ecclesiastes 7:17 Be not over much wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you die …
whose foundation was overflown with a flood. Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation
Genesis 7:11,17-24 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the …
Matthew 24:37-39 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be…
1 Peter 3:19,20 By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison…
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a …
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Depart
Job 21:10,14,15 Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf…
Isaiah 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy …
Matthew 8:29,34 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, …
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …
and what
Psalm 4:6 There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you …
Malachi 3:14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that …
for them. or, to them
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
he filled
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are …
1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up.
Psalm 17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which …
Jeremiah 12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, …
Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did …
Acts 15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of …
the counsel
Job 21:16 See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
righteous
Psalm 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because …
Psalm 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Psalm 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because …
Psalm 107:42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Proverbs 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when …
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
Revelation 19:1-3 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, …
innocent
Job 9:23 If the whip slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Psalm 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
our substance. or, our estate
Job 4:7 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where …
Job 8:3,4 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice…
Job 15:5,6 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty…
Job 20:18,19 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow …
Job 21:27,28 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully …
Luke 13:1-5 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, …
the remnant. or, their excellency. the fire
Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The …
Job 20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown …
Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire …
Luke 17:29,30 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone …
2 Peter 2:6,7 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned …
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Acquaint
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined …
him. that is, God. be at peace
Isaiah 27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with …
Isaiah 57:19-21 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, …
Matthew 5:25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with …
Acts 10:36 The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace …
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech …
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep …
Ephesians 2:14-17 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the …
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
receive
Deuteronomy 4:1,2 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, …
Proverbs 2:1-9 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you…
1 Thessalonians 4:1,2 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus…
lay up
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have …
Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart…
Psalm 119:11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Proverbs 4:4,21 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: …
Jeremiah 15:16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was to me …
Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things…
Matthew 13:52 Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed …
Luke 2:19,51 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart…
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
return
Job 8:5,6 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty…
Job 11:13,14 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him…
Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…
Hosea 14:1,2 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity…
Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you …
Acts 26:20 But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout …
built up
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up …
Jeremiah 31:4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: …
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you …
Jude 1:20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, …
thou shalt
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Job 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone …
Joshua 7:13-16 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to …
Isaiah 33:15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises …
Zechariah 5:3,4 Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face …
put
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, …
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
lay up
1 Kings 10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the …
2 Chronicles 1:5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son …
2 Chronicles 9:10,27 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which …
as dust. or, on the dust. Ophir
Genesis 10:29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
1 Kings 9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred …
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but …
Psalm 45:9 Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand …
Isaiah 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the …
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
the Almighty
Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, …
Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my …
Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and …
Isaiah 41:10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
defence. or, gold
Psalm 16:5,6 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot…
Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and …
2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; …
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …
plenty of silver. Heb. silver of strength
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
shalt thou
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call on God?
Job 34:9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight …
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires …
Songs 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among …
Isaiah 58:14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you …
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
lift up
Job 11:15 For then shall you lift up your face without spot; yes, you shall …
Psalm 25:1 To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Psalm 86:4 Rejoice the soul of your servant: for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you …
1 John 3:20,21 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows …
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
make thy
Psalm 50:14,15 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High…
Psalm 66:17,18-20 I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue…
Psalm 91:15 He shall call on me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in …
Psalm 116:1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
Isaiah 58:9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and …
1 John 5:14,15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any …
pay thy
Psalm 56:12 Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you.
Psalm 66:13,14 I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows…
Psalm 116:14 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure …
Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will …
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
decree
Psalm 20:4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.
Psalm 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you …
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
James 4:15 For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do …
the light
Job 29:3 When his candle shined on my head, and when by his light I walked …
Psalm 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Psalm 112:4 To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious, …
Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more …
Isaiah 30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, …
Malachi 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise …
John 8:12 Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: …
When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
men
Job 5:19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no …
Psalm 9:2,3 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, …
Psalm 91:14-16 Because he has set his love on me, therefore will I deliver him: …
Psalm 92:9-11 For, see, your enemies, O LORD, for, see, your enemies shall perish; …
he shall
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself …
Luke 18:9-14 And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves …
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …
the humble person. Heb. him that hath low eyes
Psalm 138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect to the lowly: but the …
Isaiah 66:2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have …
Ezekiel 21:26,27 Thus said the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: …
Luke 1:52 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
He shall deliver the island of the innocent. or, The innocent shall deliver the island
Job 42:8 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to …
Genesis 18:26-32 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the …
Isaiah 58:12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you …
Jeremiah 5:1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, …
Acts 27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, see, …
pureness
Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Malachi 1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious to us: …
Matthew 17:19,20 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we …
Acts 19:15,16 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; …
1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, …
James 5:15,16 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise …
