Job 22:3

Coverdale Bible (1535)

What pleasure hath God in yt thou art rightuous? Or what doth it profite him, yt thy waies are perfecte?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I knowe my God, that thou tryest the hert, and that vnfaynednes is acceptable vnto the: therfore haue I geue all this with an vnfayned hert, eue with a good wyll, and now haue I had ioye to se thy people (which here are present) offre with a fre wyll vnto the.
  • Job 23:10-12 : 10 But as for my waye, he knoweth it: & trieth me as ye golde in ye fyre. 11 Neuertheles my fete kepe his path, his hye strete haue I holden, and not gone out of it. 12 I haue not forsaken the comaundemet of his lippes, but loke what he charged me with his mouth, that haue I shutt vp in my herte.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 I sayde: I wil kepe my waies, that I offended not in my tonge.
  • Ps 119:3-6 : 3 Which walke in his wayes, & do no wickednesse. 4 Thou hast geuen strayte charge to kepe thy commaundementes. 5 O that my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statutes. 6 So shulde I not be confounded, whyle I haue respecte vnto all thy commaundementes.
  • Ps 119:59 : 59 I call myne owne wayes to remembraunce, and turne my fete in to thy testimonies.
  • Ps 147:10-11 : 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse, nether delyteth he in eny mas legges. 11 But the LORDES delyte is in them that feare him, and put their trust in his mercy.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false balaunce is an abhominacion vnto the LORDE, but a true weight pleaseth him.
  • Prov 11:20 : 20 The LORDE abhorreth a fayned hert, but he hath pleasure in them that are vndefyled.
  • Prov 12:22 : 22 The LORDE abhorreth disceatfull lippes, but they that laboure for treuth, please him.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him.
  • Mal 2:17 : 17 Ye greue the LORDE with youre wordes, and yet ye saye: wherwithall haue we greued him? In this, that ye saye: All that do euell are good in the sight of God, and soch please him. Or els where is the God that punysheth?
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 Therfore studye I to haue allwaye a cleare conscience towarde God and towarde men.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Seynge now that we haue soch promyses (dearly beloued) let vs clense oureselues from all fylthynes of the flesh and sprete, and growe vp to full holynes in ye feare of God.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 For I haue all, and haue plentye. I was euen fylled wha I receaued of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odoure of swetenes, a sacrifice accepted & pleasaunt vnto God.

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    2 Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest: I am rightuous before God

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  • Job 34:9-10
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    3 Thinkest thou it well done, to oppresse me, to cast me of (beinge a worke of thy hondes) and to manteyne the councell of the vngodly?

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    3 Doth God peruerte the thinge that is laufull? Or, doth the Allmightie destroye the thynge that is right?

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    8 Wilt thou disanulle my iudgment? Or, wilt thou condemne me, yt thou thy self mayest be made rightuous?

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    15 What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?

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    10 Hath he soch pleasure & delyte in the Allmightie, that he darre allwaye call vpon God?

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    17 Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?

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    12 Beholde, vnto these vnreasonable wordes of thyne wil I make answere. Shulde God be reproued of man?

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