Job 22

¹But Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:

²Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowledge?

³What doth it profit God if thou be just? Or what doest thou advantage him if thy way be unspotted?

⁴Shall he be afraid to reprove thee, and come with thee into judgment:

⁵And not for thy very great malice, and thine infinite iniquities?

⁶For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and the naked thou hast spoiled of cloths.

⁷Water to the weary thou hast not given, and from the hungry thou hast withdrawn bread.

⁸In the strength of thine arm thou didst possess the earth, and being the mightiest thou didst obtain it.

⁹Widows thou hast sent away empty, and the arms of pupils thou hast broken in pieces.

¹⁰Therefore art thou compassed with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

¹¹And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkness, and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the violence of overflowing waters?

¹²Doest thou not think that God is higher than heaven, and is exalted above the top of the stars?

¹³And thou sayst: For what knoweth God? And he judgeth as it were by a mist.

¹⁴The clouds are his covert, neither doth he consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.

¹⁵Doest thou covet to keep the path of worlds, which wicked men have trodden?

¹⁶Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

¹⁷Who said to God: Depart from us; and as though the Omnipotent could do nothing, they esteemed him:

¹⁸Whereas he had filled their houses with good things, whose sentence be far from me.

¹⁹The just shall see, & shall rejoice, & the innocent man shall scorn them.

²⁰Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?

²¹Agree thou therefore to him, and have peace: and by these things thou shalt have the best fruits.

²²Receive the law of his mouth, and put his words in thy heart.

²³If thou wilt return to the Omnipotent, thou shalt be builded up, and shalt make iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

²⁴He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

²⁵And the Omnipotent shall be against thine enemies, and silver shall be heaped together unto thee.

²⁶Then shalt thou abound in delights upon the Omnipotent, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

²⁷Thou shalt ask him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

²⁸Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

²⁹For who will be humbled, shall be in glory: & he that will bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

³⁰The innocent shall be saved, but shall be saved in the cleanness of his hands.