22Job 22

1Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:Select Job 22:1

2Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?Select Job 22:2

3What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?Select Job 22:3

4Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:Select Job 22:4

5And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?Select Job 22:5

6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.Select Job 22:6

7Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.Select Job 22:7

8In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.Select Job 22:8

9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.Select Job 22:9

10Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.Select Job 22:10

11And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?Select Job 22:11

12Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?Select Job 22:12

13And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.Select Job 22:13

14The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.Select Job 22:14

15Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have spurned?Select Job 22:15

16Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.Select Job 22:16

17Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:Select Job 22:17

18Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.Select Job 22:18

19The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.Select Job 22:19

20Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?Select Job 22:20

21Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.Select Job 22:21

22Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.Select Job 22:22

23If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.Select Job 22:23

24He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.Select Job 22:24

25And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.Select Job 22:25

26Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.Select Job 22:26

27Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.Select Job 22:27

28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.Select Job 22:28

29For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.Select Job 22:29

30The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.Select Job 22:30