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# Chapter 22
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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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2 “Can a man be profitable to God?
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Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
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3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
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or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
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4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
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and enters into judgment with you?
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5 Is not your evil abundant?
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There is no end to your iniquities.
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6 For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
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and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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7 You have given no water to the weary to drink,
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and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
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8 The man with power possessed the land,
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and the favored man lived in it.
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9 You have sent widows away empty,
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and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
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10 Therefore snares are all around you,
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and sudden terror overwhelms you,
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11 or darkness, so that you cannot see,
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and a flood of water covers you.
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12 “Is not God high in the heavens?
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See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
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13 But you say, ‘What does God know?
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Can he judge through the deep darkness?
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14 Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
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and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
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15 Will you keep to the old way
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that wicked men have trod?
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16 They were snatched away before their time;
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their foundation was washed away.
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17 They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’
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and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
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18 Yet he filled their houses with good things—
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but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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19 The righteous see it and are glad;
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the innocent one mocks at them,
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20 saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
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and what they left the fire has consumed.’
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21 “Agree with God, and be at peace;
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thereby good will come to you.
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22 Receive instruction from his mouth,
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and lay up his words in your heart.
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23 If you return to the Almighty you will be built up;
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if you remove injustice far from your tents,
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24 if you lay gold in the dust,
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and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
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25 then the Almighty will be your gold
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and your precious silver.
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26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty
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and lift up your face to God.
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27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,
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and you will pay your vows.
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28 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,
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and light will shine on your ways.
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29 For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;
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but he saves the lowly.
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30 He delivers even the one who is not innocent,
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who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” |