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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 Revised Standard NRS

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

2 "Can a mortal be of use to God? Can even the wisest be of service to him?

3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

5 Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

6 For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7 You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8 The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

9 You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

10 Therefore snares are around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,

11 or darkness so that you cannot see; a flood of water covers you.

12 "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

13 Therefore you say, "What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

14 Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of heaven.'

15 Will you keep to the old way that the wicked have trod?

16 They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

17 They said to God, "Leave us alone,' and "What can the Almighty do to us?'

18 Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

19 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,

20 saying, "Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left, the fire has consumed.'

21 "Agree with God, and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.

22 Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,

24 if you treat gold like dust, and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent-bed,

25 and if the Almighty is your gold and your precious silver,

26 then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

28 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

29 When others are humiliated, you say it is pride; for he saves the humble.

30 He will deliver even those who are guilty; they will escape because of the cleanness of your hands."