CPDV - Job - 22

22:1  Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying:

22:2  Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?

22:3  What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?

22:4  Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,

22:5  and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?

22:6  For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

22:7  You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.

22:8  By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.

22:9  You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.

22:10  Because of this, you are surrounded by traps, and unexpected fears will disturb you.

22:11  And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the onrush of overflowing waters?

22:12  Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?

22:13  And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”

22:14  and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens.”

22:15  Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?

22:16  These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.

22:17  They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,

22:18  though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.

22:19  The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.

22:20  Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?

22:21  So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.

22:22  Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

22:23  If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.

22:24  He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.

22:25  And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.

22:26  Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.

22:27  You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.

22:28  You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.

22:29  For he who had been humbled, will be in glory; and he who will lower his eyes, will be the one saved.

22:30  The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.