Job - Chapter 22 - A Conservative Version
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
- Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
- Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain [to him] that thou make thy ways perfect?
- Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproves thee, that he enters with thee into judgment?
- Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.
- For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.
- But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.
- Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee,
- or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
- Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
- And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
- Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.
- Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
- who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?
- Yet he filled their houses with good things. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- The righteous see it, and are glad. And the innocent laugh them to scorn,
- [Saying], Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them, the fire has consumed.
- Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. By this good shall come to thee.
- Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
- If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
- Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and [the gold of] Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- Yea, the Almighty will be thy treasure, and precious silver to thee.
- For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God.
- Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.
- Thou shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee. And light shall shine upon thy ways.
- When they cast [thee] down, thou shall say, [There is] lifting up, and he will save the humble man.
- He will deliver [even] him who is not innocent. Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.