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job 22

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