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# Job 22

[1](#verse-1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

[2](#verse-2) “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

[3](#verse-3) Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

[4](#verse-4) Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

[5](#verse-5) Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

[6](#verse-6) For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

[7](#verse-7) You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

[8](#verse-8) But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

[9](#verse-9) You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

[10](#verse-10) Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

[11](#verse-11) or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

[12](#verse-12) “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

[13](#verse-13) You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

[14](#verse-14) Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

[15](#verse-15) Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

[16](#verse-16) who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

[17](#verse-17) who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

[18](#verse-18) Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

[19](#verse-19) The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

[20](#verse-20) saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’

[21](#verse-21) “Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

[22](#verse-22) Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

[23](#verse-23) If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

[24](#verse-24) Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

[25](#verse-25) The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

[26](#verse-26) For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

[27](#verse-27) You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

[28](#verse-28) You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

[29](#verse-29) When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

[30](#verse-30) He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

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