Thematic Bible
Job 22:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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Job 22:2 (show verse)
"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Job 22:3 (show verse)
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Job 22:4 (show verse)
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Job 22:5 (show verse)
Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
Job 22:6 (show verse)
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:7 (show verse)
You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8 (show verse)
The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.
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Job 22:9 (show verse)
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
Job 22:10 (show verse)
Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
Job 22:11 (show verse)
or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
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Job 22:12 (show verse)
"Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
Job 22:13 (show verse)
But you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
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Job 22:14 (show verse)
Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'
Job 22:15 (show verse)
Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
Job 22:16 (show verse)
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.
Job 22:17 (show verse)
They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
Job 22:18 (show verse)
Yet he filled their houses with good things-- but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Job 22:19 (show verse)
The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them,
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Job 22:20 (show verse)
saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'
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Job 22:21 (show verse)
"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
Job 22:22 (show verse)
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Job 22:23 (show verse)
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
Job 22:24 (show verse)
if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
Job 22:25 (show verse)
then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.
Job 22:26 (show verse)
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Job 22:27 (show verse)
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
Job 22:28 (show verse)
You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.
Job 22:29 (show verse)
For when they are humbled you say, 'It is because of pride'; but he saves the lowly.
Job 22:30 (show verse)
He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."