to be soft or pliable · verb, hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
Almighty
שַׁדַּ֣יsha.Dai
H7706
the Almighty · proper noun, a title
up
וְתִשָּׂ֖אve.ti.Sa'
H5375
to lift · conjunction + verb, qal, 2nd person masculine singular
face
פָּנֶֽיךָpa.Nei.kha
H6440
the face (as the part that turns) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
God
אֱל֣וֹהַּ'e.Lo.ah
H433
a deity or the Deity · noun, common masculine singular absolute
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Cross-references
Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritag…
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Job 11:15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Psalms 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms 143:8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my…
Song of Solomon 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his frui…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Job 22:21–end
Methinks I can almost forgive Eliphaz his hard censures of Job, which we had in the beginning of the chapter, though they were very unjust and unkind, for this good counsel and encouragement which he gives him in these verses with which he closes his discourse, and than which nothing could be better said, nor more to the purpose. Though he thought him a bad man, yet he saw reason to have hopes concerning him, that, for all this, he would be both pious and prosperous. But it is strange that out of the same mouth, and almost in the same breath, both sweet waters and bitter should proceed. Good men, though they may perhaps be put into a heat, yet sometimes will talk themselves into a better tem…
lift up . . . face, &c.--repeated from Zophar (Job 11:15).
John Gill on Job 22:26
For then shall thou have thy delight in the Almighty,.... In the perfections of his nature, in the works of his hands, in his word and worship, in communion with him, and in the relation he stands in to his people as their covenant God and Father; this would be the case when Job should be more and better acquainted with God, and with the law or doctrine his month, and the words of his lips, and should return unto him with his whole heart; and when his affections should be taken off of all earthly riches; when he should look upon gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brook, and God should be to him his gold and his silver; then, and not till then, could he have true delight…
26 For then thou shalt delight thyself in the Almighty,
And lift up they countenance to Eloah;
27 If thou prayest to Him, He will hear thee,
And thou shalt pay thy vows.
28 And thou devisest a plan, and it shall be established to thee,
And light shineth upon thy ways.
29 If they are cast down, thou sayest, "Arise!"
And him that hath low eyes He saveth.
30 He shall rescue him who is not guiltless,
And he is rescued by the purity of thy hands.
כּי־אז might also be translated "then indeed" (vid., on Job 11:15), as an emphatic resumption of the promissory והיה (tum erit), Job 22:25; but what follows is really the confirmation of the promise that God will be to him a rich recompense for the earth…
The Church Fathers
"For he humbled himself. The light itself humbled itself. "And you will say; he has risen against pride, against the proud.
Then shalt thou abound with delicacies over the Almighty. To 'abound with delicacies over the Almighty' is in the love of Him to be filled to the full with the banquet of Holy Scripture. In Whose words surely we find as many delicacies, as for our profiting we obtain diversities of meaning, so that now the bare history should be our food, now, veiled under the text of the letter, the moral allegory refresh us from our inmost soul, and now to the deeper things contemplation should hold us suspended, already, in the darkness of the present life, shining in upon us from the light of eternity. And it is necessary to be known, that whosoever 'abounds with delicacies,' is released in a kind of loosening of himself, and slacks from devotion to labour as it were from weariness, because the soul when it has begun to abound with the interior delicacies, henceforth consents not ever to give itself to earthly employments, but being captivated by the love of the Creator, and by its captivity henceforth free, for the contemplating of His likeness fainting it draws breath, and as it were wilst giving over, is invigorated; because whereas sordid burthens it is now no longer able to bear, unto Him through rest it hastens Whom it loves within. Hence also in admiration of the spouse it is written, Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness abounding with delicacies? in that truly except Holy Church 'abounded with the delicacies' of God's words, she could not mount up from the deserts of the present life to the regions above. Thus she 'abounds with delicacies and comes up,' in that whilst she is fed by mystical senses, she is lifted up for the contemplating day by day the things above. Hence likewise the Psalmist says, Even the night shall be light about me in my delicacies; in that while by mystical perception the earnest mind is regaled, henceforth the darkness of the present life is lighted up in her by the radiance of the day to come. So that even in the blindness of this state of corruption the force of the future light should break out into her understanding, and she being fed with delicacies of words, might learn by thus foretasting what to hunger for of the food of truth. It goes on; And shall lift up thy face unto God. To 'lift up the face to God' is to raise the heart for the searching into what is loftiest. For as by the bodily face we are known and…
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Dictionary and topics
Citizens · General references — General references
Delighting In God · Reconciliation leads to — Reconciliation leads to
Joy · UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO — UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Peace · SPIRITUAL — SPIRITUAL
Penitent · PROMISES TO — PROMISES TO
Prosperity · Promised to the righteous — Promised to the righteous
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
God promises to be his people’s treasure (Ps 16:5; Isa 33:6; Matt 19:21; Mark 10:21); although they possess nothing, they will be rich (2 Cor 6:10; Jas 2:5).
Rashi on Job 22:26
and lift your countenance to God You will not come to lift your face except to ask Him for your needs.
