Jubilee2000 - Job - 22

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

22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God? For he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

22:3  [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art justified? Or [is it] gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect?

22:4  Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?

22:5  Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.

22:6  For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.

22:7  Thou didst not give water to drink to the weary, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.

22:8  But the man of means had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

22:9  Thou hast sent the 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, [that] thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

22:12  [Is] not God in the height of the heavens? Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

22:13  And thou shalt say, What does God know? How can he judge through the darkness?

22:14  Thick clouds are his hiding place, and he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.

22:15  Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

22:16  Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.

22:17  Who said unto God, Depart from us; and what can the Almighty do unto us?

22:18  He had filled their houses with good [things]. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

22:19  The righteous shall see [it] and be glad; and the innocent laughs them to scorn.

22:20  Whereas our substance was not cut down, when the fire had consumed the rest of them.

22:21  Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.

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

22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;

22:24  then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

22:25  And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

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

22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

22:29  When [others] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.: