< Job 22 >
1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?
to/for God be useful great man for be useful upon them be prudent
3 For what matters it to the Lord, if you were blameless in [your] works? or is it profitable that you should perfect your way?
pleasure to/for Almighty for to justify and if unjust-gain for to finish way: conduct your
4 Will you maintain and plead your own cause? and will he enter into judgement with you?
from fear your to rebuke you to come (in): come with you in/on/with justice: judgement
5 Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?
not distress: evil your many and nothing end to/for iniquity: crime your
6 And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.
for to pledge brother: male-sibling your for nothing and garment naked to strip
7 Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.
not water faint to water: drink and from hungry to withhold food: bread
8 And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth.
and man arm to/for him [the] land: country/planet and to lift: kindness face: kindness to dwell in/on/with her
9 But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.
widow to send: depart emptily and arm orphan to crush
10 Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you.
upon so around you snare and to dismay you dread suddenly
11 The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.
or darkness not to see: see and abundance water to cover you
12 Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?
not god height heaven and to see: behold! head: top star for to exalt
13 And you has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?
and to say what? to know God about/through/for cloud to judge
14 A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven.
cloud secrecy to/for him and not to see: see and circle heaven to go: walk
15 Will you [not] mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden?
way forever: antiquity to keep: obey which to tread man evil: wickedness
16 who were seized before their time: their foundations [are as] an overflowing stream.
which to seize and not time river to pour: pour foundation their
17 Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us?
[the] to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and what? to work Almighty to/for them
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him.
and he/she/it to fill house: home their good and counsel wicked to remove from me
19 The righteous have seen [it], and laughed, and the blameless one has derided [them].
to see: see righteous and to rejoice and innocent to mock to/for them
20 Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their [property].
if: surely yes not to hide adversary our and remainder their to eat fire
21 Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.
be useful please with him and to ally in/on/with them to come (in): come you welfare
22 And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
to take: recieve please from lip his instruction and to set: put word his in/on/with heart your
23 And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have [thus] removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.
if to return: return till Almighty to build to remove injustice from tent your
24 You shall lay up for yourself [treasure] in a heap on the rock; and Sophir [shall be] as the rock of the torrent.
and to set: put upon dust gold and in/on/with rock torrent: river Ophir
25 So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.
and to be Almighty gold your and silver: money peak to/for you
26 Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven.
for then upon Almighty to delight and to lift: kindness to(wards) god face your
27 And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you [power] to pay your vows.
to pray to(wards) him and to hear: hear you and vow your to complete
28 And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths.
and to cut word and to arise: establish to/for you and upon way: conduct your to shine light
29 Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, [Man] has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes.
for to abase and to say pride and lowly eye to save
30 He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.
to escape not innocent and to escape in/on/with cleanness palm your