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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 Coverdale 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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Coverdale 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">Coverdale Bible of 1535</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>So Eliphas the Themanite gaue answere, & sayde:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Maye a man be copared vnto God in wysdome, though he seme to himself, for to be like him?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>What pleasure hath God in yt thou art rightuous? Or what doth it profite him, yt thy waies are perfecte?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Is he afrayed to reproue the, & to steppe forth wt the in to iudgment?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Cometh not this for ye greate wickednesse, & for thine vngracious dedes which are innumerable?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge:<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie:<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Shuldest thou the se no darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne ouer the?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Well, thou wilt kepe the olde waye, yt all wicked me haue gone:<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>both olde & yonge, whose foundacion is a runnynge water,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>which saye vnto God: go from vs, and after this maner: Tush, what wil the Allmightie do vnto vs?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>where as he (not with stodinge) fylleth their houses wt all good. Which meanynge of the vngodly be farre fro me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For wt ioy shal the godly, and with gladnesse shal the innocent se,<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>that their increase shal be hewen downe, & their posterite consumed with the fyre.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Receaue the lawe at his mouth, & laye vp his wordes in thine herte.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For yf thou wilt turne to the Allmightie, thou shalt stonde fast, & all vnrightuousnesse shall be farre from thy dwellinge:<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He shal geue the an haruest, which in plenty & abundaunce shall exceade the dust of the earth, and the golde of Ophir like ryuer stones.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Yee the Allmightie his owne self shalbe thine haruest, & the heape of thy money.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then shalt thou haue thy delyte in the Allmightie, & 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>The shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, & he shal heare the, & thou shalt kepe thy promyses.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The, loke what thou takest in honde, he shal make it to prospere with the, and the light shall shyne in thy wayes.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Yf thou be innocet, he shal saue the: and thorow the vngiltynesse of thyne handes shalt thou be delyuered.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<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>