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Job 22, RSV

22:1 Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:

22:2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

22:4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

22:5 Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

22:6 For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

22:7 You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

22:8 The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.

22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

22:10 Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;

22:11 your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

22:12 "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

22:13 Therefore you say, `What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

22:14 Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'

22:15 Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?

22:16 They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

22:17 They said to God, `Depart from us,' and `What can the Almighty do to us?'

22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things -- but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

22:19 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,

22:20 saying, `Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'

22:21 "Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

22:22 Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

22:23 If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

22:24 if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,

22:25 and if the Almighty is your gold, and your precious silver;

22:26 then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

22:27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

22:28 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

22:29 For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.

22:30 He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

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