Job 22

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