AFV2020 - Job - 22

22:1  And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

22:2  "Can a man be profitable to God, or can a wise man be profitable to Him?

22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous, or is it a gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?

22:4  Is it for your fear of Him that he reproves you, or that He enters into judgment with you?

22:5  Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without measure?

22:6  For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

22:7  You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have held back bread from the hungry.

22:8  But the earth belongs to the mighty man, and the honorable man lived in it.

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

22:10  Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

22:11  Or darkness, so that you cannot see; and a flood of waters covers you.

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

22:13  And you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?

22:14  Clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks on the circuit of heaven.'

22:15  Do you keep to the old way which wicked men have walked,

22:16  Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were deluged by a flood?

22:17  Who said to God, 'Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?'

22:18  Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

22:19  The righteous saw it, and were glad; and the innocent laughed them to scorn, saying,

22:20  'Truly our adversaries are cut down, and fire consumed their abundance.'

22:21  Now agree with Him, and be at peace, thereby good shall come to you.

22:22  Please receive the law from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart.

22:23  If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away unrighteousness far from your tabernacles.

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

22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be your gold and you shall have plenty of silver.

22:26  For then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

22:27  You shall make your prayer to Him, and He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.

22:28  You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be fulfilled to you; and the light shall shine upon your ways.

22:29  When they cast you down, then you shall say, 'A lifting up shall come!' And He shall save the humble person.

22:30  He shall deliver even one who is not innocent, yea, you shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."