Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 22:3 in context
Job 22:1–6
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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“Can a man be profitable to God?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
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Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
that he enters with you into judgment?
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Isn’t your wickedness great?
Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
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For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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