Job 22 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/22.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Eliphaz Accuses Job of Wickedness</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-22-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Can a man be profitable to God,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-2">Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><i>Is it</i> any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-3">Or <i>is it</i> gain <i>to Him</i> that you make your ways blameless?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-4">And enters into judgment with you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><i>Is</i> not your wickedness great,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-5">And your iniquity without end?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-6">And stripped the naked of their clothing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You have not given the weary water to drink,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-7">And you have withheld bread from the hungry.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>mighty man possessed the land,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-8">And the honorable man dwelt in it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have sent widows away empty,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-9">And the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>strength of the fatherless was crushed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore snares <i>are</i> all around you,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-10">And sudden fear troubles you,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Or darkness <i>so that</i> you cannot see;</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-11">And an abundance of water covers you.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Is not God in the height of heaven?</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-12">And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you say, ‘What does God know?</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-13">Can He judge through the deep darkness?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-14">And He walks above the circle of heaven.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Will you keep to the old way</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-15">Which wicked men have trod,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Who were cut down before their time,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-16">Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They said to God, ‘Depart from us!</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-17">What can the Almighty do to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>them?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet He filled their houses with good <i>things;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-22-18">But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“The righteous see <i>it</i> and are glad,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-19">And the innocent laugh at them:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>‘Surely our <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>adversaries are cut down,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-20">And the fire consumes their remnant.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace;</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-21">Thereby good will come to you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Receive, please, instruction from His mouth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-22">And lay up His words in your heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up;</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-23">You will remove iniquity far from your tents.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then you will lay your gold in the dust,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-24">And the <i>gold</i> of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Yes, the Almighty will be your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>gold</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-25">And your precious silver;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For then you will have your delight in the Almighty,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-26">And lift up your face to God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You will make your prayer to Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-27">He will hear you,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-27">And you will pay your vows.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You will also declare a thing,</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-28">And it will be established for you;</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-28">So light will shine on your ways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When they cast <i>you</i> down, and you say, ‘Exaltation <i>will come!</i>’</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-29">Then He will save the humble <i>person.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He will <i>even</i> deliver one who is not innocent;</span><br /><span class="text Job-22-30">Yes, he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13398a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 22:8">Job 22:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>man of arm</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13399b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 22:9">Job 22:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>arms</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13407c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 22:17">Job 22:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX, Syr. <i>us</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13410d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 22:20">Job 22:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX <i>substance is</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13415e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 22:25">Job 22:25</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Ancient vss. suggest <i>defense;</i> MT <i>gold,</i> as in v. <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Job.22.24" href="/passage/?search=Job.22.24&version=NKJV">24</span></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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