1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, NHEB — Job 22:1
2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. NHEB — Job 22:2
3 Is it any pleasure to Shaddai, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect? NHEB — Job 22:3
4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment? NHEB — Job 22:4
5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities. NHEB — Job 22:5
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. NHEB — Job 22:6
7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. NHEB — Job 22:7
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it. NHEB — Job 22:8
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. NHEB — Job 22:9
10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you, NHEB — Job 22:10
11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you. NHEB — Job 22:11
12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are. NHEB — Job 22:12
13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? NHEB — Job 22:13
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.' NHEB — Job 22:14
15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, NHEB — Job 22:15
16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, NHEB — Job 22:16
17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?' NHEB — Job 22:17
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. NHEB — Job 22:18
19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them, NHEB — Job 22:19
20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.' NHEB — Job 22:20
21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you. NHEB — Job 22:21
22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. NHEB — Job 22:22
23 If you return to Shaddai, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents. NHEB — Job 22:23
24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks. NHEB — Job 22:24
25 Shaddai will be your treasure, and precious silver to you. NHEB — Job 22:25
26 For then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and shall lift up your face to God. NHEB — Job 22:26
27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows. NHEB — Job 22:27
28 And you will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. NHEB — Job 22:28
29 When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' And he will save the humble. NHEB — Job 22:29
30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." NHEB — Job 22:30