Job 22:29

Contemporary English Version

When others are disgraced, God will clear their names in answer to your prayers.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”God will save the humble.

Hebrew Names Version
When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

King James Version
When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

English Standard Version
For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride'; but he saves the lowly.

New Century Version
When people are made humble and you say, ‘Have courage,' then the humble will be saved.

New English Translation
When people are brought low and you say ‘Lift them up!' then he will save the downcast;

Amplified Bible
"When you are cast down and humbled, you will speak with confidence, And the humble person He will lift up and save.

New American Standard Bible
"When they have brought you low, you will speak with confidence, And He will save the humble person.

World English Bible
When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

Legacy Standard Bible
When some are cast down, you will speak with confidence,And the humble person He will save.

Berean Standard Bible
When men are brought low and you say, 'Lift them up,' then He will save the lowly.

Complete Jewish Bible
when someone is brought down, you will say, ‘It was pride, because [God] saves the humble.'

Darby Translation
When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.

Easy-to-Read Version
When people are brought down and you ask God to help them, he will rescue those who have been humbled.

George Lamsa Translation
For it is said, He who humbles himself shall be exalted; and he who is meek shall be saved.

Good News Translation
God brings down the proud and saves the humble.

Lexham English Bible
When they are humiliated, you say, ‘It is pride,' for he saves the humble.

Literal Translation
For they have humiliated you ; and you shall say, Pride! And He shall save the lowly of eyes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed.

American Standard Version
When they cast thee down, thou shalt say, There is lifting up; And the humble person he will save.

Bible in Basic English
For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
When they cast thee down, thou shalt say: 'There is lifting up'; for the humble person He saveth.

King James Version (1611)
When men are cast downe, then thou shalt say, There is lifting vp: and he shall saue the humble person.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When [the wicked] be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Because thou hast humbled thyself; and thou shalt say, Man has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes.

English Revised Version
When they cast thee down, thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and the humble person he shall save.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.

Update Bible Version
When they are cast down, you shall say, [There is] lifting up; And the humble person he will save.

Webster's Bible Translation
When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] exaltation; and he shall save the humble person.

New King James Version
When they cast you down, and you say, "Exaltation will come!' Then He will save the humble person.

New Living Translation
If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,' God will save them.

New Life Bible
For God puts down the man who is filled with pride. But He saves the one who is not proud.

New Revised Standard
When others are humiliated, you say it is pride; for he saves the humble.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When men cast themselves down, then thou shalt say: Up! And, him that is of downcast eyes, shall he save;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

Revised Standard Version
For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.

Young's Literal Translation
For they have made low, And thou sayest, `Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When you are cast down, you will speak with confidence, And the humble person He will save.

Contextual Overview

²¹ Surrender to God All-Powerful! You will find peace and prosperity. ²² Listen to his teachings and take them to heart. ²³ If you return to God and turn from sin, all will go well for you. ²⁴ So get rid of your finest gold, as though it were sand. ²⁵ Let God All-Powerful be your silver and gold, ²⁶ and you will find happiness by worshiping him. ²⁷ God will answer your prayers, and you will keep the promises you made to him. ²⁸ He will do whatever you ask, and life will be bright. ²⁹ When others are disgraced, God will clear their names in answer to your prayers. ³⁰ Even those who are guilty will be forgiven, because you obey God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

men: Job 5:19-27, Psalms 9:2, Psalms 9:3, Psalms 91:14-16, Psalms 92:9-11

he shall: Proverbs 29:23, Isaiah 57:15, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:9-14, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5

the humble person: Heb. him that hath low eyes, Psalms 138:6, Isaiah 66:2, Ezekiel 21:26, Ezekiel 21:27, Luke 1:52

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 40:5 - gave him Jeremiah 52:31 - lifted up Matthew 23:12 - General Luke 18:14 - every Acts 27:22 - I exhort 2 Corinthians 4:9 - cast James 4:10 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When [men] are cast down,.... Wicked men are brought down from a state of prosperity to a state of adversity, are in low circumstances, great straits and difficulties:

then thou shall say, [there is] lifting up; that is, for himself and his; when others are in adversity, he should be in prosperity; when others are cast down into a very low estate and distressed condition, he should be exalted to a very high estate, and be in affluent circumstances, see Psalms 147:6; or else the sense is, when thou and thine, and what belong to thee, are humbled and brought low, then thou mayest promise thyself a restoration and change for the better; and boldly say, they will be lifted up, and raised up again, since God's usual method is to exalt the humble, and to abase the proud, Luke 14:11; or rather, this may respect the benefit and advantage that humble persons wound gain by Job, and his prayers for them, and may be rendered and interpreted thus: "when they have humbled" q themselves, and bowed themselves low at thy feet, and especially before God, "then thou shall say", pray unto God for them, that "there [may be a] lifting up", raising them up out of their low estate, and thou shall be heard:

and he shall save the humble person; that is, "low of eyes" r, humble in his eyes; who is so pressed with troubles and distress, that he hangs down his head, looks upon the ground, and will not lift up his eyes, but is of a dejected countenance; or that is low in his own eyes, has humble thoughts of himself, esteems others better than himself, and lies low before God under a sense of his sinfulness and unworthiness, and casts himself entirely upon the grace and mercy of God; such an one he saves, in a spiritual sense, out of his troubles and afflictions; he does not forget the cry of such humble ones, but remembers them, and grants their desires: and he saves the lowly and humble with a spiritual and eternal salvation; gives more grace unto them, and outfits them for glory, and at last gives glory itself; raises them on high to sit among princes, and to inherit the throne of glory; the meek shall inherit the earth, the new heavens and earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, James 4:6.

q כי השפילו "quum humiliaverint", Montanus, Cocceius, Michaelis. r שח עינים "demissum oculis", Montanus, Beza, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "humilem oculis", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When men are cast down - The meaning of this is, probably, when people are usually cast down, or in the times of trial and calamity, which prostrate others, you shall find support. You shall then be enabled to say, “there is lifting up, or there is support.” Or, more probably still, it may mean, “in times when others are cast down and afflicted, thou shalt be able to raise them up, or to aid them. Thou shalt be able to go to them and say, ‘Be of good cheer. Do not be cast down. There is consolation.’ And thou shalt be able to procure important blessings for them by thy counsels and prayers;” see the notes at Job 22:30.

And he shall save the humble person - That is, either, “Thou shalt save the humble person,” by a change from the second person to the third, which is not uncommon in Hebrew; or, “thou shalt be able from thine own experience to say, “He,” that is, “God,” will save the humble person, or the one that is cast down.” Margin, “him that hath low eyes.” The Hebrew is like the margin. In affliction the eyes are cast upon the ground; and so, also, a casting the eyes to the ground is indicative of dejection, of humility, or of modesty. It refers here to one who experiences trials; and Eliphaz says that Job would be able to save such an one; that is, to support him in his afflictions, and furnish the helps necessary to restore him again to comfort.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:29. When men are cast down — There is a great difficulty in this verse; the sense, however, is tolerably evident, and the following is nearly a literal version: When they shall humble themselves, thou shalt say, Be exalted, or, there is exaltation: for the down-cast of eye he will save. The same sentiment as that of our Lord, "He that exalteth himself shall be abased; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."