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Job 22

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,SelectedJob 22:1Ask

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?SelectedJob 22:2Ask

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?SelectedJob 22:3Ask

Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?SelectedJob 22:4Ask

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?SelectedJob 22:5Ask

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.SelectedJob 22:6Ask

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.SelectedJob 22:7Ask

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.SelectedJob 22:8Ask

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.SelectedJob 22:9Ask

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;SelectedJob 22:10Ask

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.SelectedJob 22:11Ask

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!SelectedJob 22:12Ask

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?SelectedJob 22:13Ask

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.SelectedJob 22:14Ask

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?SelectedJob 22:15Ask

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:SelectedJob 22:16Ask

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?SelectedJob 22:17Ask

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.SelectedJob 22:18Ask

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.SelectedJob 22:19Ask

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.SelectedJob 22:20Ask

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.SelectedJob 22:21Ask

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.SelectedJob 22:22Ask

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.SelectedJob 22:23Ask

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.SelectedJob 22:24Ask

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.SelectedJob 22:25Ask

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.SelectedJob 22:26Ask

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.SelectedJob 22:27Ask

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.SelectedJob 22:28Ask

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.SelectedJob 22:29Ask

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.SelectedJob 22:30Ask

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