AB - Job - 22

22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

22:2  Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?

22:3  For what does it matter to the Lord, if you were blameless in your works? Or is it profitable that you should perfect your way?

22:4  Will you maintain and plead your own cause? And will He enter into judgment with you?

22:5  Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?

22:6  And you have taken the security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.

22:7  Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.

22:8  And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those that were already settled on the earth.

22:9  But you have sent widows away empty, and have afflicted orphans.

22:10  Therefore snares have surrounded you, and disastrous war has troubled you.

22:11  The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.

22:12  Does not He that dwells in the high places observe? And has He not brought down the proud?

22:13  And you have said, What does the Mighty One know? Does He judge in the dark?

22:14  A cloud is His hiding place, and He shall not be seen; and He passes through the circle of heaven.

22:15  Will you not mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden?

22:16  Who were seized before their time-their foundations are as an overflowing stream.

22:17  Who say, What will the Lord do to us? Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

22:18  Yet He filled their houses with good things, but the counsel for the wicked is far from Him.

22:19  The righteous have seen it, and laughed, and the blameless one has derided them.

22:20  Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their property.

22:21  Be firm, I pray, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.

22:22  And receive a declaration from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

22:23  And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have thus removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.

22:24  You shall lay up for yourself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Ophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.

22:25  So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and He shall bring you forth as pure as silver that has been tried by fire.

22:26  Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven.

22:27  And He shall hear you when you pray to Him, and He shall grant you power to pay your vows.

22:28  And He shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness, and there shall be light upon your paths.

22:29  Because you have humbled yourself, and you shall say, Man has behaved proudly, but He shall save him that is of lowly eyes.

22:30  He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.