Webster - Job - 22

22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

22:2  Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?

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

22:4  Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

22:5  [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thy iniquities infinite?

22:6  For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

22:8  But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.

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

22:10  Therefore snares [are] around thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

22:11  Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

22:12  [Is] not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!

22:13  And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

22:14  Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

22:15  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

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

22:17  Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for 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 see [it], and are glad: and the innocent deride them.

22:20  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

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 shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

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

22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense 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 to God.

22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer to 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 to thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

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

22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands.