For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
Parallel translations
- KJV For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
- BSB Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
- NKJV For then you will have your delight in the Almighty, And lift up your face to God.
- NASB “For then you will take pleasure in the Almighty And lift up your face to God.
- NLT “Then you will take delight in the Almighty and look up to God.
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Quick answer
Eliphaz says that then Job will delight in the Almighty and lift up his face to God with confidence. Restored fellowship brings joy and boldness before God.
Overview
Eliphaz describes the fruit of reconciliation: delighting in God and lifting up the face without shame (cf. Ps 37:4). This pictures the confident access believers have to God, fully realized through Christ who removes our shame (Heb 4:16). The truth is precious, though Eliphaz wrongly treats it as conditional on Job's repentance from imagined sins.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 37:4Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- Isa 58:14then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
- Job 11:15Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
- Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
- Ps 86:4Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
- Ps 143:8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
- 1 Jn 3:20–21because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
- Song 2:3As 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, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
- Ps 25:1By David. To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
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