Job 22:15-25

15 Eh quoi! tu voudrais prendre l'ancienne route Qu'ont suivie les hommes d'iniquité?
16 Ils ont été emportés avant le temps, Ils ont eu la durée d'un torrent qui s'écoule.
17 Ils disaient à Dieu: Retire-toi de nous; Que peut faire pour nous le Tout-Puissant?
18 Dieu cependant avait rempli de biens leurs maisons. -Loin de moi le conseil des méchants!
19 Les justes, témoins de leur chute, se réjouiront, Et l'innocent se moquera d'eux:
20 Voilà nos adversaires anéantis! Voilà leurs richesses dévorées par le feu!
21 Attache-toi donc à Dieu, et tu auras la paix; Tu jouiras ainsi du bonheur.
22 Reçois de sa bouche l'instruction, Et mets dans ton coeur ses paroles.
23 Tu seras rétabli, si tu reviens au Tout-Puissant, Si tu éloignes l'iniquité de ta tente.
24 Jette l'or dans la poussière, L'or d'Ophir parmi les cailloux des torrents;
25 Et le Tout-Puissant sera ton or, Ton argent, ta richesse.

Job 22:15-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 22

This chapter contains the third and last reply of Eliphaz to Job, in which he charges him with having too high an opinion of himself, of his holiness and righteousness, as if God was profited by it, and laid thereby under obligation to him, whereas he was not, Job 22:1-3; and as if he reproved and chastised him, because of his fear of him, whereas it was because of his sins, Job 22:4,5; an enumeration of which he gives, as of injustice, oppression, cruelty to the poor, and even of atheism and infidelity, for which snares and fears were around him, and various calamities, Job 22:6-14; and compares his way and course of life to that of the men of the old world, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and suggests that his end would be like theirs, unless he repented, Job 22:15-20; and then concludes with an exhortation to him to return to God by repentance, and to reform, when he should see happy times again, and enjoy much outward and inward prosperity, and be an instrument of doing much good to many, Job 22:21-30.

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