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Can even a wise person be helpful to him?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous? Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Is it because you’re so pious that he accuses you and brings judgment against you?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No, it’s because of your wickedness! There’s no limit to your sins.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to it!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That is why you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“God is so great—higher than the heavens, higher than the farthest stars.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Will you continue on the old paths where evil people have walked?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Listen to his instructions, and store them in your heart.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored— so clean up your life.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If you give up your lust for money and throw your precious gold into the river,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">the Almighty himself will be your treasure. He will be your precious silver!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Then you will take delight in the Almighty and look up to God.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, and light will shine on the road ahead of you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’ God will save them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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