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Job Chapter 22 Click Here to Listen to This Chapter |
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- Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
- Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
- What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
- Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
- And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
- For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
- In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
- Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
- Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
- And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
- Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
- And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
- The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
- Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
- Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
- Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
- Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
- The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
- Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
- Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
- Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
- If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
- He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
- And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
- Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
- Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
- Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
- For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
- The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.