| 22 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: | THE THIRD DIALOGUE. Jb.22.1-27.23. Eliphaz. Jb.22.1-30 | |
| 2 | "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. | ||
| 3 | Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? | ||
| 4 | Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you? | ||
| 5 | Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities. | ||
| 6 | For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. | ||
| 7 | You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. | ||
| 8 | The man with power possessed the land, and the favoured man dwelt in it. | ||
| 9 | You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. | ||
| 10 | Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you; | ||
| 11 | your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. | ||
| 12 | "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are! | ||
| 13 | Therefore you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? | ||
| 14 | Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.' | ||
| 15 | Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod? | ||
| 16 | They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. | ||
| 17 | They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us? | ||
| 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; the innocent laugh them to scorn, | ||
| 20 | saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.' | ||
| 21 | "Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. | ||
| 22 | Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. | ||
| 23 | If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents, | ||
| 24 | if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed, | ||
| 25 | and if the Almighty is your gold, and your precious silver; | ||
| 26 | then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God. | ||
| 27 | You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows. | ||
| 28 | You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. | ||
| 29 | For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly. | ||
| 30 | He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." | ||
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