Thematic Bible

Job 22:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:2

Can a man be of any use to God?
Can even a wise man be of use to Him?

Job 22:3

Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous?
Does He profit if you perfect your behavior?

Job 22:4

Does He correct you and take you to court
because of your piety?

Job 22:5

Isn’t your wickedness abundant
and aren’t your iniquities endless?

Job 22:6

For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.

Job 22:7

You gave no water to the thirsty
and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8

while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed,
and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares surround you,
and sudden dread terrifies you,

Job 22:11

or darkness, so you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:12

Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!

Job 22:13

Yet you say: “What does God know?
Can He judge through thick darkness?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:14

Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see,
as He walks on the circle of the sky.”

Job 22:15

Will you continue on the ancient path
that wicked men have walked?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time,
and their foundations were washed away by a river.

Job 22:17

They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”

Job 22:18

But it was He who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:19

The righteous see this and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:20

“Surely our opponents are destroyed,
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”
No Themes for this verse.

Job 22:21

Come to terms with God and be at peace;
in this way good will come to you.

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from His mouth,
and place His sayings in your heart.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.
If you banish injustice from your tent

Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust,
the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,

Job 22:25

the Almighty will be your gold
and your finest silver.

Job 22:26

Then you will delight in the Almighty
and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows.

Job 22:28

When you make a decision, it will be carried out,
and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29

When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”
God will save the humble.

Job 22:30

He will even rescue the guilty one,
who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.