Job 22

Job 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 22:2 Can a healthy man be of any use to God? Can even a wise man be of use to him?

Job 22:3 Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous? Does he profit if you perfect your behavior?

Job 22:4 Does he correct you and take you to court because of your piety?

Job 22:5 Isn’t your wickedness abundant and aren’t your iniquities endless?

Job 22:6 For you took collateral from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

Job 22:7 You gave no water to the thirsty and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8 while the land belonged to a powerful man and an influential man lived on it.

Job 22:9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:10 Therefore snares surround you, and sudden dread terrifies you,

Job 22:11 or darkness, so you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:12 Isn’t God as high as the sky? And look at the highest stars — how lofty they are!

Job 22:13 Yet you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through total darkness?

Job 22:14 Clouds veil him so that he cannot see, as he walks on the circle of the sky.”

Job 22:15 Will you continue the ancient path that wicked men have walked?

Job 22:16 They were snatched away before their time, and a river washed away their foundations.

Job 22:17 They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!” and “What can the Almighty do to us?”

Job 22:18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Job 22:19 The righteous see this and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,

Job 22:20 “Surely our opponents are made to disappear, and fire has consumed what they left behind.”

Job 22:21 Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.

Job 22:22 Receive instruction from his mouth and place his sayings in your heart.

Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent

Job 22:24 and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,

Job 22:25 the Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver.

Job 22:26 Then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfil your vows.

Job 22:28 When you decide, it will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29 When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,” God will save the humble.

Job 22:30 He will even rescue the guilty one, who the purity of your hands will rescue.

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