# Job 22 [[Job 21|←]] • [[Job 23|→]] --- ### 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ### 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? ### 3 any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or gain that thou makest thy ways perfect? ### 4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? ### 5 not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? ### 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ### 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. ### 8 But the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. ### 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. ### 10 Therefore snares round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; ### 11 Or darkness, thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. ### 12 not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! ### 13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? ### 14 Thick clouds a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. ### 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? ### 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: ### 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? ### 18 Yet he filled their houses with good but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ### 19 The righteous see and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. ### 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. ### 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. ### 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ### 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. ### 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ### 25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. ### 26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. ### 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. ### 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. ### 29 When are cast down, then thou shalt say, lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. ### 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.