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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."

New King James Version NKJV

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 "Can a man be profitable to God, Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?

3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?

4 "Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you?

5 Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end?

6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

7 You have not given the weary water to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8 But the mighty man possessed the land, And the honorable man dwelt in it.

9 You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

10 Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you,

11 Or darkness so that you cannot see; And an abundance of water covers you.

12 "Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!

13 And you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?

14 Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see, And He walks above the circle of heaven.'

15 Will you keep to the old way Which wicked men have trod,

16 Who were cut down before their time, Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

17 They said to God, 'Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?'

18 Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

19 "The righteous see it and are glad, And the innocent laugh at them:

20 'Surely our adversaries are cut down, And the fire consumes their remnant.'

21 "Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace; Thereby good will come to you.

22 Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, And lay up His words in your heart.

23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; You will remove iniquity far from your tents.

24 Then you will lay your gold in the dust, And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

25 Yes, the Almighty will be your gold And your precious silver;

26 For then you will have your delight in the Almighty, And lift up your face to God.

27 You will make your prayer to Him, He will hear you, And you will pay your vows.

28 You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways.

29 When they cast you down, and you say, 'Exaltation will come!' Then He will save the humble person.

30 He will even deliver one who is not innocent; Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands."