Job 22 — GNV
22Verse 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,Verse 2May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?Verse 3Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?Verse 4Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?Verse 5Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?Verse 6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.Verse 7To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.Verse 8But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.Verse 9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.Verse 10Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:Verse 11Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.Verse 12Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.Verse 13But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?Verse 14The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.Verse 15Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?Verse 16Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:Verse 17Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.Verse 18Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.Verse 19The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.Verse 20Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.Verse 21Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.Verse 22Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.Verse 23If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.Verse 24Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.Verse 25Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.Verse 26And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.Verse 27Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.Verse 28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.Verse 29When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.Verse 30The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.