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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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch22022" class="chapter"> <h1 class="bksect">IV. <span class="ac">Third Cycle of Speeches</span><a id="rfn22022000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22022000-1">*</a></h1> <h1 id="cn22022" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Eliphaz’s Third Speech.</span> <span id="v22022001" class="ver">1</span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v22022002" class="ver">2</span>Can a man be profitable to God?<a id="ren22022002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl1">Can a wise man be profitable to him?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022003" class="ver">3</span>Does it please the Almighty that you are just?<a id="ren22022003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022003-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">Does he gain if your ways are perfect?<a id="rfn22022003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22022003-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022004" class="ver">4</span>Is it because of your piety that he reproves you—</p> <p class="sl1">that he enters into judgment with you?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022005" class="ver">5</span>Is not your wickedness great,</p> <p class="sl1">your iniquity endless?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022006" class="ver">6</span>You keep your relatives’ goods in pledge unjustly,<a id="rfn22022006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22022006-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">leave them stripped naked of their clothing.<a id="ren22022006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022006-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022007" class="ver">7</span>To the thirsty you give no water to drink,</p> <p class="sl1">and from the hungry you withhold bread;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022008" class="ver">8</span>As if the land belonged to the powerful,</p> <p class="sl1">and only the privileged could dwell in it!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022009" class="ver">9</span>You sent widows away empty-handed,</p> <p class="sl1">and the resources of orphans are destroyed.<a id="ren22022009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022010" class="ver">10</span>Therefore snares are round about you,<a id="ren22022010-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022010-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">sudden terror makes you panic,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022011" class="ver">11</span>Or darkness—you cannot see!</p> <p class="sl1">A deluge of waters covers you.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022012" class="ver">12</span>Does not God, in the heights of the heavens,<a id="ren22022012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022012-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">behold the top of the stars, high though they are?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022013" class="ver">13</span>Yet you say, “What does God know?<a id="ren22022013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022013-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl1">Can he judge through the thick darkness?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022014" class="ver">14</span>Clouds hide him so that he cannot see</p> <p class="sl1">as he walks around the circuit of the heavens!”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022015" class="ver">15</span>Do you indeed keep to the ancient way</p> <p class="sl1">trodden by the worthless?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022016" class="ver">16</span>They were snatched before their time;</p> <p class="sl1">their foundations a river swept away.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022017" class="ver">17</span>They said to God, “Let us alone!”</p> <p class="sl1">and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022018" class="ver">18</span>Yet he had filled their houses with good things.</p> <p class="sl1">The designs of the wicked are far from me!<a id="rfn22022018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22022018-1">*</a> <a id="ren22022018-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022018-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022019" class="ver">19</span>The just look on and are glad,</p> <p class="sl1">and the innocent deride them:<a id="rfn22022019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22022019-1">*</a> <a id="ren22022019-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022019-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022020" class="ver">20</span>“Truly our enemies are destroyed,</p> <p class="sl1">and what was left to them, fire has consumed!”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022021" class="ver">21</span>Settle with him and have peace.</p> <p class="sl1">That way good shall come to you:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022022" class="ver">22</span>Receive instruction from his mouth,</p> <p class="sl1">and place his words in your heart.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022023" class="ver">23</span>If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;</p> <p class="sl1">if you put iniquity far from your tent,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022024" class="ver">24</span>And treat raw gold as dust,</p> <p class="sl1">the fine gold of Ophir<a id="rfn22022024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22022024-1">*</a> as pebbles in the wadi,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022025" class="ver">25</span>Then the Almighty himself shall be your gold</p> <p class="sl1">and your sparkling silver.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022026" class="ver">26</span>For then you shall delight in the Almighty,</p> <p class="sl1">you shall lift up your face toward God.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022027" class="ver">27</span>Entreat him and he will hear you,<a id="ren22022027-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022027-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl1">and your vows you shall fulfill.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022028" class="ver">28</span>What you decide shall succeed for you,</p> <p class="sl1">and upon your ways light shall shine.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022029" class="ver">29</span>For when they are brought low, you will say, “It is pride!”</p> <p class="sl1">But downcast eyes he saves.<a id="ren22022029-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022029-k">k</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22022030" class="ver">30</span>He will deliver whoever is innocent;</p> <p class="sl1">you shall be delivered if your hands are clean.<a id="ren22022030-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22022030-l">l</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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