Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
3 Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, 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 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived 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 have been broken.
Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are.
Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'
Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is 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 it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words 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 Shaddai, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness 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 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
25 Shaddai will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
26 For then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and shall lift up your face to God.
And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
28 And you will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you, and light will shine 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 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' And he will save the humble.
When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."
The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
