Job Chapter 22
| 1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, | 2 | Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? | 3 | Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect? | 4 | Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? | 5 | Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? | 6 | For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. | 7 | Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. | 8 | But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. | 9 | Thou has sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. | 10 | Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; | 11 | Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. | 12 | Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! | 13 | And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? | 14 | Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. | 15 | Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? | 16 | Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: | 17 | Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? | 18 | Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. | 19 | The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. | 20 | Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. | 21 | Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. | 22 | Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. | 23 | If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. | 24 | Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. | 25 | Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. | 26 | For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. | 27 | Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. | 28 | Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. | 29 | When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. | 30 | He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. |