Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2 May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
3 Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
4 Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
13 But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
16 Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
19 The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21 Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
22 Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
24 Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
25 Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
26 And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
27 Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
29 When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
30 The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.
