The Book of Job

Chapter-22

Job 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying:

 

Job 22:2 Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?

 

Job 22:3 What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?

 

Job 22:4 Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,

 

Job 22:5 and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?

 

Job 22:6 For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

 

Job 22:7 You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.

 

Job 22:8 By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.

 

Job 22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.

 

Job 22:10 Because of this, you are surrounded by traps, and unexpected fears will disturb you.

 

Job 22:11 And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the on-rush of overflowing waters?

 

Job 22:12 Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?

 

Job 22:13 And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”

 

Job 22:14 and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens.”

 

Job 22:15 Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?

 

Job 22:16 These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.

 

Job 22:17 They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,

 

Job 22:18 though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.

 

Job 22:19 The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.

 

Job 22:20 Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?

 

Job 22:21 So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.

 

Job 22:22 Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

 

Job 22:23 If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.

 

Job 22:24 He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.

 

Job 22:25 And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.

 

Job 22:26 Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.

 

Job 22:27 You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.

 

Job 22:28 You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.

 

Job 22:29 For he who had been humbled, will be in glory; and he who will lower his eyes, will be the one saved.

 

Job 22:30 The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.