Job 22

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,NHEB — Job 22:1

2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.NHEB — Job 22:2

3 Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?NHEB — Job 22:3

4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?NHEB — Job 22:4

5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.NHEB — Job 22:5

6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.NHEB — Job 22:6

7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.NHEB — Job 22:7

8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.NHEB — Job 22:8

9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.NHEB — Job 22:9

10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,NHEB — Job 22:10

11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.NHEB — Job 22:11

12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are.NHEB — Job 22:12

13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?NHEB — Job 22:13

14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'NHEB — Job 22:14

15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,NHEB — Job 22:15

16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,NHEB — Job 22:16

17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'NHEB — Job 22:17

18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.NHEB — Job 22:18

19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,NHEB — Job 22:19

20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'NHEB — Job 22:20

21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.NHEB — Job 22:21

22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.NHEB — Job 22:22

23 If you return to Shaddai, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.NHEB — Job 22:23

24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.NHEB — Job 22:24

25 Shaddai will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.NHEB — Job 22:25

26 For then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and shall lift up your face to God.NHEB — Job 22:26

27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.NHEB — Job 22:27

28 And you will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.NHEB — Job 22:28

29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' And he will save the humble.NHEB — Job 22:29

30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."NHEB — Job 22:30