Job 22 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great

Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

Job 22:4

Job 22:4Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
and enters into judgment with you?

Job 22:5

Job 22:5Is not your evil abundant?
There is no end to your iniquities.

Job 22:6

Job 22:6For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

Job 22:7You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Job 22:8

Job 22:8The man with power possessed the land,
and the favored man lived in it.

Job 22:9

Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty,
and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

Job 22:10

Job 22:10Therefore snares are all around you,
and sudden terror overwhelms you,

Job 22:11

Job 22:11or darkness, so that you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:12

Job 22:12“Is not God high in the heavens?
See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 22:13

Job 22:13But you say, ‘What does God know?
Can he judge through the deep darkness?

Job 22:14

Job 22:14Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

Job 22:15

Job 22:15Will you keep to the old way
that wicked men have trod?

Job 22:16

Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time;
their foundation was washed away.[fn]

Job 22:17

Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’
and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’[fn]

Job 22:18

Job 22:18Yet he filled their houses with good things—
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 22:19

Job 22:19The righteous see it and are glad;
the innocent one mocks at them,

Job 22:20

Job 22:20saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
and what they left the fire has consumed.’

Job 22:21

Job 22:21“Agree with God, and be at peace;
thereby good will come to you.

Job 22:22

Job 22:22Receive instruction from his mouth,
and lay up his words in your heart.

Job 22:23

Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty you will be built up;
if you remove injustice far from your tents,

Job 22:24

Job 22:24if you lay gold in the dust,
and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,

Job 22:25

Job 22:25then the Almighty will be your gold
and your precious silver.

Job 22:26

Job 22:26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty
and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27

Job 22:27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,
and you will pay your vows.

Job 22:28

Job 22:28You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,
and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29

Job 22:29For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;[fn]
but he saves the lowly.

Job 22:30

Job 22:30He delivers even the one who is not innocent,
who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

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ESV Footnotes

(22:16)

Or their foundation was poured out as a stream (or river)

(22:17)

Hebrew them

(22:29)

Or you say, ‘It is exaltation’

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Job 22 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great

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