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