Job 22 Eliphaz Accuses Job of Many Sins and Urges Him to Repent

 Job 22

Eliphaz Accuses Job of Many Sins and Urges Him to Repent

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 Can a man profit God? But a prudent man is profitable to himself.

3 Does the Almighty delight in your righteousness, or gain anything by making your ways blameless?

4 Or does he rebuke you because he fears you, or enter into judgment with you?

5 Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities endless?

6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and have stripped the naked of their clothing.

7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and withheld bread from the hungry.

8 But the land was for the violent, and the man held in honor dwelt in it.

9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

10 Therefore snares have surrounded you, and sudden fear has troubled you.

11 Or darkness, where you cannot see, and abundance of waters has covered you.

12 Is not God high in the heavens? Consider the height of the stars, how high they are!

13 And you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge in the darkness?'

14 The clouds are a hiding place for him, so that you cannot see; he walks in the circuit of the heavens.

15 Have you considered the path of the past, which the wicked have trodden?

16 They were taken away before their time; a flood was poured upon their foundation.

17 They said to God, 'Depart from us!' and, 'What has the Almighty done?' 

18 Now he had filled their houses with good things; therefore the counsel of the wicked be far from me!

19 The righteous saw it, and were glad, and the innocent mocked them,

20 Saying, "For our estate is not destroyed, but the fire has consumed the remnant of them."

21 Therefore cleave to him, and be at peace, and good will come to you.

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

23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; put away iniquity from thy tent.

24 ​​Then shalt thou heap up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

25 And the Almighty shall be unto thee as gold, and as heaped up silver.

26 For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

 27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

28 When you decide on a matter, he will be established for you, and light will shine on your path.

29 When they bring you low, then you will say, "Let there be exaltation!" And God will save the humble.

30 He will deliver even those who are not innocent; yes, he will be delivered by the cleanness of your hands.