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Job 22

Common English Bible CEB

1 Then Eliphaz from Teman answered:

2 Can a human being be useful to God? Can an intelligent person bring profit?

3 Does the Almighty delight in your innocence? Does he gain when you perfect your ways?

4 Does he rebuke you for your piety, bring you in for judgment?

5 Isn't your wickedness massive, your iniquity endless?

6 You have taken payments from your family for no reason; stripped the naked, leaving no clothes;

7 denied water to the thirsty, withheld bread from the starving.

8 (The powerful own land; the favored live in it.)

9 You have sent widows away empty; crushed orphans' resources.

10 For this reason, snares surround you; sudden dread brings panic to you

11 or a darkness that you can't see; rushing water will cover you.

12 Isn't God in the heights of heaven; see how high the topmost stars are?

13 You say: "What does God know? Can he judge through thick clouds?

14 Clouds conceal him so he can't see while he walks on heaven's rim."

15 Will you keep the ancient way traveled by sinful persons,

16 who were snatched prematurely when a river flooded their foundations,

17 who say to God, "Turn away from us; what can the Almighty do to us?"

18 Yet he filled their houses with good things; a sinner's logic is beyond me.

19 The righteous see and rejoice; the innocent mock them:

20 our enemies are certainly cut off; fire will devour what's left of them.

21 Get along well with God and be at peace; from this something good will come to you.

22 Receive instruction from his mouth; put his words in your mind.

23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; if you keep wrongdoing out of your tent.

24 Lay your prized possession in the dust, your gold from Ophir on a rock in a desert streambed.

25 The Almighty will be your prized possession, silver piled up for you.

26 Then you will take pleasure in the Almighty; lift up your face to God.

27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you; you will fulfill your solemn promises.

28 If you decree something, it will stand; light will shine on your ways.

29 When they're humbled, you will say: "Cheer up; God will rescue the lowly.

30 He will deliver the guilty; they will be saved by your pure hands."

The Message Bible MSG

1 Once again Eliphaz the Temanite took up his theme:

2 "Are any of us strong enough to give God a hand, or smart enough to give him advice?

3 So what if you were righteous - would God Almighty even notice? Even if you gave a perfect performance, do you think he'd applaud?

4 Do you think it's because he cares about your purity that he's disciplining you, putting you on the spot?

5 Hardly! It's because you're a first-class moral failure, because there's no end to your sins.

6 When people came to you for help, you took the shirts off their backs, exploited their helplessness.

7 You wouldn't so much as give a drink to the thirsty, or food, not even a scrap, to the hungry.

8 And there you sat, strong and honored by everyone, surrounded by immense wealth!

9 You turned poor widows away from your door; heartless, you crushed orphans.

10 Now you're the one trapped in terror, paralyzed by fear. Suddenly the tables have turned!

11 How do you like living in the dark, sightless, up to your neck in flood waters?

12 "You agree, don't you, that God is in charge? He runs the universe - just look at the stars!

13 Yet you dare raise questions: 'What does God know? From that distance and darkness, how can he judge?

14 He roams the heavens wrapped in clouds, so how can he see us?'

15 "Are you going to persist in that tired old line that wicked men and women have always used?

16 Where did it get them? They died young, flash floods sweeping them off to their doom.

17 They told God, 'Get lost! What good is God Almighty to us?'

18 And yet it was God who gave them everything they had. It's beyond me how they can carry on like this!

19 "Good people see bad people crash, and call for a celebration. Relieved, they crow,

20 'At last! Our enemies - wiped out. Everything they had and stood for is up in smoke!'

21 "Give in to God, come to terms with him and everything will turn out just fine.

22 Let him tell you what to do; take his words to heart.

23 Come back to God Almighty and he'll rebuild your life. Clean house of everything evil.

24 Relax your grip on your money and abandon your gold-plated luxury.

25 God Almighty will be your treasure, more wealth than you can imagine.

26 "You'll take delight in God, the Mighty One, and look to him joyfully, boldly.

27 You'll pray to him and he'll listen; he'll help you do what you've promised.

28 You'll decide what you want and it will happen; your life will be bathed in light.

29 To those who feel low you'll say, 'Chin up! Be brave!' and God will save them.

30 Yes, even the guilty will escape, escape through God's grace in your life."