Job 22

^{Job 22:1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

^{Job 22:2} “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

^{Job 22:3} Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

^{Job 22:4} Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

^{Job 22:5} Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

^{Job 22:6} For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

^{Job 22:7} You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

^{Job 22:8} while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

^{Job 22:9} You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

^{Job 22:10} Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

^{Job 22:11} it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

^{Job 22:12} Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

^{Job 22:13} Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

^{Job 22:14} Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven. ’

^{Job 22:15} Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

^{Job 22:16} They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

^{Job 22:17} They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

^{Job 22:18} But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

^{Job 22:19} The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

^{Job 22:20} ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

^{Job 22:21} Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

^{Job 22:22} Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

^{Job 22:23} If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

^{Job 22:24} and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

^{Job 22:25} then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

^{Job 22:26} Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

^{Job 22:27} You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

^{Job 22:28} Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

^{Job 22:29} When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

^{Job 22:30} He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”