Job 22 :: King James Version (KJV)

Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job

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

Job 22:2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 22:4

Job 22:4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

Job 22:5

Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Job 22:6

Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

Job 22:7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Job 22:8

Job 22:8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Job 22:9

Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 22:10

Job 22:10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Job 22:11

Job 22:11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 22:12

Job 22:12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 22:13

Job 22:13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Job 22:14

Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Job 22:15

Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Job 22:16

Job 22:16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Job 22:17

Job 22:17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

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: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

Job 22:20

Job 22:20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

Job 22:21

Job 22:21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:22

Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Job 22:23

Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Job 22:24

Job 22:24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Job 22:25

Job 22:25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Job 22:26

Job 22:26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Job 22:27

Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Job 22:28

Job 22:28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Job 22:29

Job 22:29When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

Job 22:30

Job 22:30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

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Job 22 :: King James Version (KJV)

Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job

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