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Job 22

Good News Translation GNT

1 Is there anyone, even the wisest,

2 who could ever be of use to God?

3 Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?

4 It is not because you stand in awe of God that he reprimands you and brings you to trial.

5 No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.

6 To make a brother repay you the money he owed, you took away his clothes and left him nothing to wear.

7 You refused water to those who were tired, and refused to feed those who were hungry.

8 You used your power and your position to take over the whole land.

9 You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.

10 So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.

11 It has grown so dark that you cannot see, and a flood overwhelms you.

12 Doesn't God live in the highest heavens and look down on the stars, even though they are high?

13 And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds - how can he judge us?"

14 You think the thick clouds keep him from seeing, as he walks on the dome of the sky.

15 Are you determined to walk in the paths that evil people have always followed?

16 Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.

17 These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

18 And yet it was God who made them prosperous - I can't understand the thoughts of the wicked.

19 Good people are glad and the innocent laugh when they see the wicked punished.

20 All that the wicked own is destroyed, and fire burns up anything that is left.

21 Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.

22 Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.

23 Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.

24 Throw away your gold; dump your finest gold in the dry stream bed.

25 Let Almighty God be your gold, and let him be silver, piled high for you.

26 Then you will always trust in God and find that he is the source of your joy.

27 When you pray, he will answer you, and you will keep the vows you made.

28 You will succeed in all you do, and light will shine on your path.

29 God brings down the proud and saves the humble.

30 He will rescue you if you are innocent, if what you do is right.

World English Bible WEB

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

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

5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

9 You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

10 Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

11 Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.

12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

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

16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

17 Who said to God, 'Depart from us;' And, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

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; The innocent laugh them to scorn,

20 Saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.

23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

24 Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

25 The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you.

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

27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent; Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."