Job 22:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:21 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Isaiah 27:5
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:14-17
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-30)

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 con…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Eliphaz takes it for granted, Job is not yet “acquainted” with God; literally, “become a companion of God.” Turn with familiar confidence to God. and be--So thou shalt be: the second imperatively expresses the consequence of obeying the first (Psa 37:27). peace--prosperity and restoration to Job; true spiritually also to us (Ro 5:1; Col 1:20). good--(1Ti 4:8).