Job 22 — LXXSB
22Verse 1Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,Verse 2Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?Verse 3For what matters it to the Lord, if you were blameless in your works? or is it profitable that you should perfect your way?Verse 4Will you maintain and plead your own cause? and will he enter into judgement with you?Verse 5Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?Verse 6And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.Verse 7Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.Verse 8And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those that were already settled on the earth.Verse 9But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.Verse 10Therefore snares have compassed you, and disastrous war has troubled you.Verse 11The light has proved darkness to you, and water has covered you on your lying down.Verse 12Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?Verse 13And you have said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?Verse 14A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven.Verse 15Will you not mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden?Verse 16who were seized before their time: their foundations are as an overflowing stream.Verse 17Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us?Verse 18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him.Verse 19The righteous have seen it, and laughed, and the blameless one has derided them.Verse 20Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their property.Verse 21Be firm, I pray you, if you can endure; then your fruit shall prosper.Verse 22And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.Verse 23And if you shall turn and humble yourself before the Lord, you have thus removed unrighteousness far from your habitation.Verse 24You shall lay up for yourself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.Verse 25So the Almighty shall be your helper from enemies, and he shall bring you forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.Verse 26Then shall you have boldness before the Lord, looking up cheerfully to heaven.Verse 27And he shall hear you when you pray to him, and he shall grant you power to pay your vows.Verse 28And he shall establish to you again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon your paths.Verse 29Because you have humbled yourself; and you shall say, Man has behaved proudly, but he shall save him that is of lowly eyes.Verse 30He shall deliver the innocent, and do you save yourself by your pure hands.