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title="Job 21">◄</a> Job 22 <a href="../job/23.htm" title="Job 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/22.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Can a man be profitable to God?</span><br /><span class="indent">Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,</span><br /><span class="indent">or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Is not your evil abundant?</span><br /><span class="indent">There is no end to your iniquities.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">You have given no water to the weary to drink,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">The man with power possessed the land,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the favored man lived in it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have sent widows away empty,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore snares are all around you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and sudden terror overwhelms you,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">or darkness, so that you cannot see,</span><br /><span class="indent">and a flood of water covers you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Is not God high in the heavens?</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">But you say, ‘What does God know?</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he walks on the vault of heaven.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Will you keep to the old way</span><br /><span class="indent">that wicked men have trod?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They were snatched away before their time;</span><br /><span class="indent">their foundation was washed away.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or their foundation was poured out as a stream (or river)">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’</span><br /><span class="indent">and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew them">b</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet he filled their houses with good things—</span><br /><span class="indent">but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The righteous see it and are glad;</span><br /><span class="indent">the innocent one mocks at them,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,</span><br /><span class="indent">and what they left the fire has consumed.’</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Agree with God, and be at peace;</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Receive instruction from his mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">If you return to the Almighty you will be built up;</span><br /><span class="indent">if you remove injustice far from your tents,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">if you lay gold in the dust,</span><br /><span class="indent">and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">then the Almighty will be your gold</span><br /><span class="indent">and your precious silver.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and 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><span class="ln-group">For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or you say, 'It is exaltation'">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">but he saves the lowly.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He delivers even the one who is not innocent,</span><br /><span class="indent">who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>their foundation was poured out as a stream</i> (or <i>river</i>)<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Hebrew <i>them</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">you say, 'It is</span> exaltation'</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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