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Job 22

New Living Translation NLT

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 “Can a person do anything to help God? Can even a wise person be helpful to him?

3 Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous? Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect?

4 Is it because you’re so pious that he accuses you and brings judgment against you?

5 No, it’s because of your wickedness! There’s no limit to your sins.

6 “For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.

7 You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry.

8 You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to it!

9 You must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.

10 That is why you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears.

11 That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.

12 “God is so great—higher than the heavens, higher than the farthest stars.

13 But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?

14 For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’

15 “Will you continue on the old paths where evil people have walked?

16 They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.

17 For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’

18 Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.

19 “The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt.

20 They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’

21 “Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you.

22 Listen to his instructions, and store them in your heart.

23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life.

24 If you give up your lust for money and throw your precious gold into the river,

25 the Almighty himself will be your treasure. He will be your precious silver!

26 “Then you will take delight in the Almighty and look up to God.

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

28 You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, and light will shine on the road ahead of you.

29 If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’ God will save them.

30 Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure.”

English Standard Version ESV

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

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 if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?

5 Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

6 For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing 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 man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.

9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

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

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

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

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

14 Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven. ’

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

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

17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us, ’and ‘What can the Almighty do to 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 one mocks at them,

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

21 “Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby 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 built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,

24 if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,

25 then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.

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

27 You will make your prayer 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 For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly.

30 He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands. ”