Job 22:30
Good News Translation
He will rescue you if you are innocent, if what you do is right.

New Revised Standard Version
He will deliver even those who are guilty; they will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.”

Contemporary English Version
Even those who are guilty will be forgiven, because you obey God.

New American Bible
He will deliver whoever is innocent; you shall be delivered if your hands are clean.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

Job 42:8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Genesis 18:26-32 And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake. . . .

Isaiah 58:12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Acts 27:24 Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

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Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Malachi 1:9 And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy on you, (for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any means he will receive your faces, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 17:19,20 Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible to you. . . .

Acts 19:15,16 But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know: and Paul I know. But who are you? . . .

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

James 5:15,16 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. And the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him. . . .

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
29For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved. 30The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.
Cross References
Job 17:9
And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 23:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Job 42:7
And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.

Job 42:8
Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Psalm 18:20
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

Psalm 24:3
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?

Psalm 24:4
The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

Job 22:29
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