Job 22
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
2 “Is a man profitable to God, Because a wise man is profitable to himself?
May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
3 Is it a delight to the Mighty One That you are righteous? Is it gain, That you make your ways perfect?
Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
4 Because of your reverence Does He reason [with] you? He enters with you into judgment:
Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
5 Is your wickedness not abundant? And there is no end to your iniquities.
Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
6 For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, And you strip off the garments of the naked.
For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
7 You do not cause the weary to drink water, And you withhold bread from the hungry.
To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
8 As for the man of arm—he has the earth, And the accepted of face—he dwells in it.
But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
10 Therefore snares [are] all around you, And sudden fear troubles you.
Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
11 Or darkness—you do not see, And abundance of waters covers you.
Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
12 Is God not high [in] the heavens? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.
Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
13 And you have said, How has God known? Does He judge through thickness?
But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
14 Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, And He does not see, And He habitually walks [above] the circle of the heavens.
The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
15 Do you observe the path of the age, That men of iniquity have trodden,
Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly? A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
17 Those saying to God, Turn aside from us, And what does the Mighty One do to them?
Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
18 And He has filled their houses [with] good (And the counsel of the wicked Has been far from me).
Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
19 The righteous see and they rejoice, And the innocent mocks at them:
The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
20 Surely our substance has not been cut off, And fire has consumed their excellence.
Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
21 Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace, Thereby your increase [is] good.
Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
22 Please receive a law from His mouth, And set His sayings in your heart.
Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
23 If you return to the Mighty you are built up, You put iniquity far from your tents.
If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
24 So as to set a defense on the dust, And a covering on a rock of the valleys.
Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
25 And the Mighty has been your defense, And silver [is] strength to you.
Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
26 For then you delight yourself on the Mighty, And lift up your face to God,
And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
27 You make supplication to Him, And He hears you, And you complete your vows.
Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
28 And you decree a saying, And it is established to you, And light has shone on your ways.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
29 For they have made low, And you say, Lift up. And He saves the bowed down of eyes.
When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
30 He delivers the one [who is] not innocent, Indeed, he has been delivered By the cleanness of your hands.”
The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
