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God Is Not in Our Debt
All commentators agree on the verse's core theological truth: humans cannot profit God or place Him in our debt. As Albert Barnes explains, God is independent, supreme, and self-sufficient. Our goodness doesn't add to Him, nor does our wickedness diminish Him. This means our relationship with God is based on His grace, not on any service we could possibly render.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 22:2
18th Century
Theologian
Can a man be profitable to God? - Can a man confer any favor on God, so as to lay him under obligation? Eliphaz supposes that Job sets up a …
Charles Ellicott
On Job 22:2
19th Century
Bishop
As he that is wise. —It is probably an independent statement: Surely he that is wise is profitable, etc.
John Gill
On Job 22:2
17th Century
Pastor
Can a man be profitable unto God? &c.] Eliphaz imagined that Job thought so, by his insisting so much on his integrity, a…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 22:1–4
17th Century
Minister
Eliphaz considers that, because Job complained so much of his afflictions, he thought God was unjust in afflicting him; but Job was far from thinki…