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Can a man be profitable to God?(A)
    Can a wise man be profitable to him?
Does it please the Almighty that you are just?(B)
    Does he gain if your ways are perfect?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:3 Another irony: God will “gain,” because he will have been proved right in his claim to the satan that Job is “perfect.”

“Can a man be of benefit to God?(A)
    Can even a wise person benefit him?(B)
What pleasure(C) would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?(D)
    What would he gain if your ways were blameless?(E)

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