Job 22:1WEB
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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Job 22:1WEB
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Job 22:2WEB
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Job 22:3WEB
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
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Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
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Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Job 22:6WEB
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8WEB
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
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You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 22:10WEB
Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
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or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
Job 22:12WEB
“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
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You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Job 22:14WEB
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
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Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
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who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
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who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
Job 22:18WEB
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:19WEB
The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
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saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
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“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
Job 22:22WEB
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Job 22:23WEB
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Job 22:24WEB
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Job 22:25WEB
The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
Job 22:26WEB
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
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You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
Job 22:28WEB
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
Job 22:29WEB
When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
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He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.