Job 22 — TOJB

22Verse 1Then Eliphaz of Teman answered and said,^{Verse 2}Can a gever be profitable unto El,
as he that has seichel may be profitable unto himself?
^{Verse 3}Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that thou art tzaddik?
Or is it gain to Him, that thou makest thy ways blameless?
^{Verse 4}Is it for thy yireh [Elohim] that He reproves thee?
Will He enter with thee into mishpat?
^{Verse 5}Is not thy rah great?
And thine avonot infinite?
^{Verse 6}For thou hast exacted a pledge from thy brother for naught,
and stripped the arummim (naked ones) of their clothing.
^{Verse 7}Thou hast not given mayim to the weary to drink,
and thou hast withheld lechem from the hungry.
^{Verse 8}But as for the ish zeroa (mighty man), his is ha'aretz;
and the honorable man dwelt therein.
^{Verse 9}Thou hast sent almanot away empty,
and the arms of the yetomim have been broken.
^{Verse 10}Therefore pachim (snares) are around thee,
and sudden pachad troubleth thee;
^{Verse 11}Or choshech, that thou canst not see;
and overflow of mayim cover thee.
^{Verse 12}Is not Eloah in the height of Shomayim?
And hinei the rosh kokhavim, how high they are!
^{Verse 13}And thou sayest, How doth El know?
Can He judge through the thick cloud?
^{Verse 14}Thick clouds veil Him, that He seeth not;
and He walketh in the vault of Shomayim.
^{Verse 15}Wilt thou note the orach olam
which wicked men have trodden?
^{Verse 16}Who were cut down before their time,
whose yesod was overflown with a flood;
^{Verse 17}Who said unto El, Depart from us;
and what can Shaddai do to them?
^{Verse 18}Yet He filled their batim (houses) with tov;
but the etza (counsel) of the resha'im is far from me.
^{Verse 19}The tzaddikim see it, and are glad,
and the naki (innocent) laugh them to scorn.
^{Verse 20}Verily our foe is destroyed,
and the abundance of them the eish consumeth.^{Verse 21}Acquaint now thyself with Him, and so hast thou shalom;
thereby tovah shall come unto thee.
^{Verse 22}Receive, now, torah from His mouth,
and lay up His words in thine lev.
^{Verse 23}If thou return to Shaddai,
thou shalt be restored;
if thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy ohalim;
^{Verse 24}Then shalt thou lay up gold as aphar,
and that of Ophir as the tzur of the brooks.
^{Verse 25}Yea, Shaddai shall be thy gold,
and thy precious kesef.
^{Verse 26}For then shalt thou have thy delight in Shaddai,
and shalt lift up thy face unto Eloah.
^{Verse 27}Thou shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He shall hear thee,
and thou shalt fulfill thy nederim.
^{Verse 28}Thou shalt also decide a matter, and it shall be established unto thee,
and the ohr shall shine upon thy ways.^{Verse 29}When they are cast down, thou shalt say: Arise,
and He shall save the one with low eynayim.^{+
Verse 30}He shall deliver even the guilty;
and he is delivered by the bar (cleanness) of thine hands.