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Job 22
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1Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?
2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3For what matters it to the Lord, if you were blameless in [your] works? or is it profitable that you should perfect your way?
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
4Will you maintain and plead your own cause? and will he enter into judgment with you ?
4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
5Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?
5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
6And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked .
6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.
7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth.
8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
9But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.
9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you.
10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
11The light has proved darkness to you , and water has covered you on your lying down.
11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
12Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?
12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
13And you have said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?
13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven.
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
15Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden?
15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
16who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream.
16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
17Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us?
17who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him.
18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous have seen [it], and laughed, and the blameless one has derided [them].
19The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
20Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property].
20saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
21Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.
21“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
22And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
23And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.
23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
24You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent.
24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
25So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.
25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
26Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven.
26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
27And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows.
27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
28And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths.
28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
29Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, [Man] has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes.
29When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
30He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.
30He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”