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Job 22

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Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job to Repentance

 
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, +
"Can a man be profitable to God?Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. +
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous?Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect? +
Is it for your piety that he reproves you,that he enters with you into judgment? +
Isn't your wickedness great?Neither is there any end to your iniquities. +
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,and stripped the naked of their clothing. +
You haven't given water to the weary to drink,and you have withheld bread from the hungry. +
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.The honorable man, he lived in it. +
You have sent widows away empty,and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. +
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Therefore snares are around you.Sudden fear troubles you, +
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or darkness, so that you can not see,and floods of waters cover you. +
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"Isn't God in the heights of heaven?See the height of the stars, how high they are! +
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You say, 'What does God know?Can he judge through the thick darkness? +
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Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see.He walks on the vault of the sky.' +
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Will you keep the old way,which wicked men have trodden, +
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who were snatched away before their time,whose foundation was poured out as a stream, +
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who said to God, 'Depart from us;'and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?' +
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Yet he filled their houses with good things,but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. +
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The righteous see it, and are glad.The innocent ridicule them, +
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saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.The fire has consumed their remnant.' +
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"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace.Thereby good shall come to you. +
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Please receive instruction from his mouth,and lay up his words in your heart. +
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If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up,if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. +
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Lay your treasure in the dust,the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. +
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The Almighty will be your treasure,and precious silver to you. +
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For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,and shall lift up your face to God. +
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You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.You shall pay your vows. +
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You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you.Light shall shine on your ways. +
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When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.'He will save the humble person. +
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He will even deliver him who is not innocent.Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." +


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