Job 22:27
Good News Translation
When you pray, he will answer you, and you will keep the vows you made.

New Revised Standard Version
You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

Contemporary English Version
God will answer your prayers, and you will keep the promises you made to him.

New American Bible
Entreat him and he will hear you, and your vows you shall fulfill.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

make thy

Psalm 50:14,15 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. . . .

Psalm 66:17,18-20 I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue. . . .

Psalm 91:15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Psalm 116:1 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.

Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.

1 John 5:14,15 And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us. . . .

pay thy

Psalm 56:12 In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:

Psalm 66:13,14 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

Psalm 116:14 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:

Ecclesiastes 5:4 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

Jonah 2:9 They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
26Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God. 27Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:21
When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.

Job 8:6
If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

Job 11:13
But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

Job 27:10
Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

Job 33:26
He shall pray to God, and he will be gracious to him: and he shall see his face with joy, and he will render to man his justice.

Job 34:28
So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Psalm 61:5
For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

Isaiah 58:9
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.

Jonah 2:9
They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.

Job 22:26
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