#### Job 22

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30}

^ Jb 22.1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
^ Jb 22.2: Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
^ Jb 22.3: [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?
^ Jb 22.4: Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
^ Jb 22.5: [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
^ Jb 22.6: For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
^ Jb 22.7: Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
^ Jb 22.8: But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
^ Jb 22.9: Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
^ Jb 22.10: Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
^ Jb 22.11: Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
^ Jb 22.12: [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
^ Jb 22.13: And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
^ Jb 22.14: Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
^ Jb 22.15: Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
^ Jb 22.16: Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
^ Jb 22.17: Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
^ Jb 22.18: Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
^ Jb 22.19: The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
^ Jb 22.20: Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
^ Jb 22.21: Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
^ Jb 22.22: Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
^ Jb 22.23: If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
^ Jb 22.24: Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
^ Jb 22.25: Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
^ Jb 22.26: For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
^ Jb 22.27: Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
^ Jb 22.28: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
^ Jb 22.29: When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
^ Jb 22.30: He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.