Job 22:3
Good News Translation
Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?

New Revised Standard Version
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

Contemporary English Version
If you were completely sinless, that would still mean nothing to God All-Powerful.

New American Bible
Does it please the Almighty that you are just? Does he gain if your ways are perfect?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

any pleasure

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

Psalm 147:10,11 He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man. . . .

Proverbs 11:1,20 Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom. . . .

Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him.

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?

Philippians 4:18 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

thou makest

Job 23:10-12 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire: . . .

Psalm 39:1 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. [2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

Psalm 119:3-6,59 For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways. . . .

Acts 24:16 And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence, towards God and towards men.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
2Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge? 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:…
Cross References
Job 22:2
Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 22:4
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

Job 35:7
And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Job 22:2
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