Job 22

1 And he answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he said.

Then Eliphaz replied,

2 ¿ To God will he be of use a man for will he be of use? on him a wise [person].

“(Can anyone be useful to God?/Certainly no one can be useful to God.) [RHQ] Even people who are wise cannot be helpful to God.

3 ¿ [does] pleasure [belong] to [the] Almighty That you are righteous and or? profit that you make blameless ways your.

If you were righteous, (would that benefit Almighty [God]?/that certainly would not benefit Almighty [God].) [RHQ] If you had (lived a perfect life/never done anything that is wrong), would that help him?

4 ¿ From fear your does he reprove you does he go? with you in judgment.

“Is it because you have an awesome respect for God that he punishes you? Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?

5 ¿ Not [is] evil your great and not? an end [belongs] to iniquities your.

No, it certainly must be [RHQ] because you are extremely wicked. It must be that the evil things that you have done are so many that no one can count them!

6 For you have held in pledge brothers your without cause and [the] garments of naked [people] you have stripped off.

You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you; you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.

7 Not water [the] weary you have given to drink and from [the] hungry you have withheld bread.

You must not have given water to those who were thirsty, and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.

8 And a person of arm [belongs] to him the land and [one] uplifted of face he dwells in it.

Because you were very powerful, you [must have] taken over all the people’s land, and then, being very respected, you have begun to live on that land.

9 Widows you have sent away with empty hands and [the] arms of fatherless ones it has been crushed.

[When] widows [came to you for help], you [must have] sent [them] away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.

10 There-fore [are] around you snares and it terrifies you dread suddenly.

Because of all that, now there are pits around you for you to fall into, and suddenly there are things that terrify you and cause you to tremble.

11 Or darkness not you will see and abundance of water it covers you.

[It is as though] it has become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything, and [it is as though] [MET] a flood covers you.

12 ¿ Not [is] God [the] height of heaven and look at [the] top of [the] stars that they are high.

“[But consider this, Job]: God lives [RHQ] high up in the heavens. From there he [RHQ] looks down on the highest stars.

13 And you say what? does he know God ¿ through thick darkness will he judge.

So why do you say, ‘What does God know [about what we are doing]? [He is hidden from us by] dark clouds, so ([how] can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.) [RHQ]’

14 Clouds [are] a hiding place of him and not he will see and [the] circle of heaven he walks about.

[Do you think that] while he walks on the dome that covers the sky, there are thick clouds around him, with the result that he cannot see [what we do]?

15 ¿ A path of antiquity will you keep which they have trodden men of wickedness.

Will you continue to conduct your life the old way that evil people have done [for many years]?

16 Who they were snatched away and not an appropriate time a river it was poured out foundation their.

They suddenly died while they were still young; they disappeared [like everything disappears when there is] a flood [MET].

17 Who were saying to God depart from us and what? will he do [the] Almighty to them.

They kept saying to God, ‘Do not bother us,’ and they also said [defiantly], ‘Almighty [God] can do nothing [RHQ] to [harm] us!’

18 And he he filled houses their good thing[s] and [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.

But it was God who filled their houses with good things, so I cannot at all understand why wicked people think like they do.

19 They see [it] righteous [people] so they may rejoice and [the] innocent he mocks them.

“But when God punishes wicked people, and righteous people see that, they are glad, and they laugh, ridiculing the wicked people.

20 If not he has been destroyed adversary our and abundance their it has consumed fire.

They say, ‘Now our enemies have been destroyed, and all [their possessions] that were left have been burned in a fire.’

21 Be reconciled please with him and be at peace by them it will come to you good.

“So, [Job, ] be reconciled to God and make peace with him; if you do that, good things will happen to you.

22 Accept please from mouth his instruction and put words his in heart your.

Allow him to teach you, and keep thinking about what he has told you.

23 If you will return to [the] Almighty you will be built up you will remove injustice from tent your.

If you humble yourself and return to God, if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,

24 And put on [the] dust gold and among [the] rock[s] of wadis gold of Ophir.

if you throw away your gold, even the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir [land],

25 And he will be [the] Almighty gold your and silver of heaps for you.

and if you allow Almighty [God] to be [as precious to you as] your gold and your silver [have been],

26 For then on [the] Almighty you will take delight and you may lift up to God face your.

you will be happy because of your close relationship with God, and you will be able to approach him [IDM] [confidently].

27 You will pray to him and he will hear you and vows your you will pay.

You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do; you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.

28 And you may decide a matter and it may be fulfilled for you and on ways your it will shine light.

Everything that you decide to do will be successful; [it] will [be as though] a light [is] shining on the road in front of you.

29 If people brought low and you said up! and [the] lowly of eyes he will save.

God humbles those who are proud, but he saves those who are downcast/discouraged.

30 He will deliver not an innocent [person] and he will be delivered by [the] cleanness of hands your.

God rescues those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), so he will rescue you if you (start doing things that are right/are not guilty [IDM] of doing things that are wrong).”