Job 22:3 Cross References - Matthew

³ What pleasure hath God in that thou art righteous? Or what doth it profyte him, that thy waies are perfecte?

¹⁷ I wote my God, that thou prouest the herte, and hast pleasure in playnesse. And in playnesse of myne herte I haue wyllynglye geuen all thys. And now I se thy people whiche are here in gladnesse, to offer wyllyngly to the.

¹⁰ But as for my way, he knoweth it: & tryeth me as the goulde in the fyre. ¹¹ Neuertheles my fete kepe his path, his hie strete haue I holden, and not gone oute of it. ¹² I haue not forsaken the commaundemente of hys lippes, but loke what he charged me wt his mouth, that haue I shut vp in my herte.

¹ To the chanter for Iduthun, a Psalme of Dauid. I sayde: I wyll kepe my wayes that I offende not in my tonge And so I shutte my mouthe whyle the vngodly layed wait for me.

³ Which walcke in hys wayes, and do no wickednes. ⁴ Thou haste geuen strayte charge to kepe thy commaundementes. ⁵ O that my wayes were stablished to kepe thy statutes. ⁶ So shoulde I not be confounded while I haue respecte vnto all thy commaundemente

⁵⁹ I cal myne owne wayes to remembrance, and turne my fete into thy testimonies.

¹⁰ He hath no pleasure in the strengthe of an horse, neither deliteth he in any mans legges. ¹¹ But the Lordes delyte is in them that feare hym, and put their trust in his mercy.

¹ A false balance is an abhomynation vnto the Lord, but a true weight pleaseth him.

²⁰ The Lord abhorreth a fayned hert, but he hath pleasur in them that are vndefiled.

²² The Lord abhorreth disceatful lyppes, but they that laboure for trueth please hym.

⁸ The Lorde aborreth the sacryfyce of the vngodlye, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto hym.

¹⁷ Ye greue the lord with your wordes, & yet ye say: wherwt al haue we greued him? In this, that ye say: Al that do euil are good in the sight of god, and such please him. Or els where is the God that punisheth?

¹⁶ And therfore studye I to haue a cleare conscience towarde God, and towarde man also.

¹ Seynge that we haue such promyses dearely beloued, let vs cleanse oure selues from al fylthynesse of the fleshe & spyrite, and grow vp to full holynesse in the feare of God.

¹⁸ I receiued al, and haue plentie. I was euen fylled after that I had receyued of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, & odour that smelleth swete, a sacrifyce accepted and pleasaunt to God.