Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Parallel translations
- WEB For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
- KJV For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto 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 37:4Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Isa 58:14then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
- Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- Job 11:15then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
- Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- Ps 86:4Bring joy to Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
- Ps 143:8Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
- 1 Jn 3:20–21Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
- Song 2:3Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
- Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
- Ps 25:1Of David. To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
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