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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 22 Geneva Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Geneva Bible</a> > Job 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/21.htm" 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">Geneva Bible of 1587</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/22-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Eliphaz: Can a Man Be of Use to God?<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shal establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The innocent shal deliuer the yland, & it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>