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Job 22 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job 22:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 22:2Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to 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 22:4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness great? and thy iniquities infinite?
Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.
Job 22:8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 22:10Therefore snares are around thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Job 22:11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job 22:12Is not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!
Job 22:13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job 22:16Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!
Job 22:17Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!
Job 22:18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent deride them.
Job 22:20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Job 22:21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to thee.
Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Job 22:23If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job 22:24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Job 22:25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
Job 22:26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
Job 22:27Thou shalt make thy prayer to him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Job 22:28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Job 22:29When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is exaltation; and he shall save the humble person.
Job 22:30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands.
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