ACV - Job - 22

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

22:2  Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain to him that thou make thy ways perfect?

22:4  Is it for thy fear of him that he reproves thee, that he enters with thee into judgment?

22:5  Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

22:6  For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

22:7  Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.

22:8  But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

22:9  Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

22:10  Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee,

22:11  or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

22:12  Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

22:13  And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

22:14  Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

22:15  Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

22:16  Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

22:17  who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?

22:18  Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

22:19  The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn,

22:20  Saying, Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.

22:21  Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.

22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

22:24  Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

22:25  Yea, the Almighty will be thy treasure, and precious silver to thee.

22:26  For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God.

22:27  Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.

22:28  Thou shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee. And light shall shine upon thy ways.

22:29  When they cast thee down, thou shall say, There is lifting up, and he will save the humble man.

22:30  He will deliver even him who is not innocent. Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.