Geneva1599 - Job - 22

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

22:2  May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?

22:3  Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?

22:4  Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

22:5  Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?

22:6  For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

22:7  To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

22:8  But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.

22:9  Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.

22:10  Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:

22:11  Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

22:12  Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

22:13  But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

22:14  The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

22:15  Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?

22:16  Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

22:17  Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.

22:18  Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.

22:19  The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.

22:20  Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

22:21  Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.

22:22  Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

22:23  If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.

22:24  Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.

22:25  Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.

22:26  And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.

22:27  Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.

22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.

22:29  When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.

22:30  The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.