Job 22:1 (BSB)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 22:2 (BSB)
“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

Job 22:3 (BSB)
Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

Job 22:4 (BSB)
Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

Job 22:5 (BSB)
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Job 22:6 (BSB)
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7 (BSB)
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8 (BSB)
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

Job 22:9 (BSB)
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:10 (BSB)
Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Job 22:11 (BSB)
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:12 (BSB)
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 22:13 (BSB)
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Job 22:14 (BSB)
Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

Job 22:15 (BSB)
Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Job 22:16 (BSB)
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 22:17 (BSB)
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 22:18 (BSB)
But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 22:19 (BSB)
The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

Job 22:20 (BSB)
‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

Job 22:21 (BSB)
Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Job 22:22 (BSB)
Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Job 22:23 (BSB)
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

Job 22:24 (BSB)
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Job 22:25 (BSB)
then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

Job 22:26 (BSB)
Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27 (BSB)
You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Job 22:28 (BSB)
Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29 (BSB)
When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

Job 22:30 (BSB)
He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”
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