Job 22

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answer-ed, and said,⋮

2 Whether a man, yea, when he is of perfect knowing, may be compar-isoned to God?⋮

3 What profiteth it to God, if thou art just or rightwise? either what shalt thou give to him, if thy life is without wem?⋮

4 Whether he shall dread, and shall he reprove thee, and shall he come with thee into doom,⋮

5 and not for thy full much malice, and thy wickednesses without number, these pains have fallen justly to thee?⋮

6 For thou hast taken away without cause the wed of thy brethren; and hast spoiled naked men of clothes.⋮

7 Thou gavest not water to the faint man; and thou withdrewest bread from the hungry man.⋮

8 In the strength of thine arm, thou haddest the land in possession; and thou, most mighty, heldest it.⋮

9 Thou lettest widows go away void, or unhelped; and all-brakest the shoulders of fatherless children.⋮

10 Therefore thou art now encom-passed with snares; and sudden dread troubleth thee.⋮

11 And thou guessedest, that thou shouldest not see darknesses; and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the fierceness of waters flowing.⋮

12 Whether thou thinkest not, that God is higher than heaven, and is enhanced above the top of stars?⋮

13 And yet thou sayest, What soothly knoweth God? and, He deemeth as by darkness.⋮

14 A cloud is his hiding place, and he beholdeth not our things, and he goeth about the hinges of heaven, that is, the principal parts of heaven.⋮

15 Whether thou covetest to keep to the path of world’s, that is, the life of men living worldly and dissolutely, which wicked men have oft gone?⋮

16 Which were taken away before their time, and the flood destroyed the foundament of them.⋮

17 Which said to God, Go thou away from us; and as if Almighty God may do nothing, they guessed him,⋮

18 when he had filled their houses with goods; the sentence of which men be far from me.⋮

19 Just or Rightwise men shall see, and shall be glad; and an innocent man shall scorn them.⋮

20 Whether the up-raising of them is not cut down, and fire shall devour the remnants of them?⋮

21 Therefore assent thou to God, and have thou peace; and by these things thou shalt have best fruits.⋮

22 Take thou the law of his mouth, and set or put thou his words in thine heart.⋮

23 If thou turnest again to Almighty God, thou shalt be builded up; and thou shalt make wickedness far from thy tabernacle.⋮

24 He shall give a flint for earth, and golden strands or streams for a flint.⋮

25 And Almighty God shall be against thine enemies; and silver shall be gathered together to thee.⋮

26 Then on Almighty God thou shalt flow with delights; and thou shalt raise up thy face to God.⋮

27 Thou shalt pray him, and he shall hear thee; and thou shalt yield thy vows.⋮

28 Thou shalt deem a thing, and it shall come to thee; and light shall shine in thy ways.⋮

29 For he that is meeked shall be in glory; and he that boweth down his eyes, shall be saved.⋮

30 An innocent shall be saved; soothly he shall be saved in the cleanness of his hands.⋮