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Job 22 Catholic Public Domain Version

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1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying:
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?
2 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3 What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
4 Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,
4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
5 and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?
5 Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
6 For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.
7 You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8 By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Because of this, you are surrounded by traps, and unexpected fears will disturb you.
10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
11 And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the onrush of overflowing waters?
11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
12 Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?
12 “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”
13 You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14 and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens.”
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
15 Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
16 These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
17 They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,
17 who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
18 though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.
19 The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
20 Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?
20 saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
21 So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.
21 “Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
22 Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.
22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
23 If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
24 He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.
24 Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
25 And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.
25 The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
26 Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.
26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
27 You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.
27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
28 You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.
28 You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
29 For he who had been humbled, will be in glory; and he who will lower his eyes, will be the one saved.
29 When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
30 The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.
30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
Cross references (29)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Luke 17:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Job 35:6–8; Psalm 16:2; Proverbs 3:13–18
  2. 3 Proverbs 15:8; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Proverbs 12:22; Proverbs 11:1; Psalm 147:10–11
  3. 4 Job 14:3; Psalm 143:2; Isaiah 3:14–15; Revelation 3:19; Psalm 39:11
  4. 5 Job 15:5–6; Psalm 40:12; Job 21:27; Job 11:14; Psalm 19:12
  5. 6 Exodus 22:26; Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 18:16; Deuteronomy 24:10–18; Job 24:3
  6. 7 Job 31:17; Isaiah 58:7; Matthew 25:42; Ezekiel 18:16; Ezekiel 18:7
  7. 8 Isaiah 9:15; Job 31:34; Psalm 12:8; Job 29:7–17; Micah 7:3
  8. 9 Job 24:21; Ezekiel 22:7; Job 24:3; Isaiah 10:2; Job 31:21
  9. 10 Job 13:21; Job 6:4; Job 18:8–10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Psalm 11:6
  10. 11 Psalm 69:1–2; Lamentations 3:54; Jonah 2:3; Lamentations 3:2; Job 38:34
  11. 12 Isaiah 66:1; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Job 11:8; Psalm 8:3–4; Isaiah 57:15
  12. 13 Ezekiel 8:12; Psalm 10:11; Ezekiel 9:9; Psalm 73:11; Psalm 94:7–9
  13. 14 Psalm 97:2; Psalm 139:11–12; Psalm 33:14; Job 34:22; Jeremiah 23:24
  14. 15 Luke 17:26–27; Genesis 6:11–13; Genesis 6:5
  15. 16 Job 15:32; Genesis 7:17–24; Matthew 24:37–39; 2 Peter 2:5; Psalm 55:23
  16. 17 Job 21:14–15; Romans 1:28; Psalm 4:6; Matthew 8:29; Isaiah 30:11
  17. 18 Job 21:16; Job 12:6; 1 Samuel 2:7; Jeremiah 12:2; Psalm 17:14
  18. 19 Psalm 58:10; Psalm 107:42; Psalm 52:6; Psalm 97:8; Revelation 18:20
  19. 20 Job 1:16; Genesis 19:24; 2 Peter 2:6–7; Job 20:26; Job 15:5–6
  20. 21 1 Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 27:5; Philippians 4:7; Psalm 34:10; Ephesians 2:14–17
  21. 22 Psalm 119:11; Job 23:12; Deuteronomy 6:6–9; Deuteronomy 4:1–2; Jeremiah 15:16
  22. 23 Job 11:13–14; Zechariah 1:3; Job 8:5–6; Isaiah 55:6–7; Hosea 14:1–2
  23. 24 1 Kings 9:28; Isaiah 13:12; Psalm 45:9; Genesis 10:29; 2 Chronicles 9:10
  24. 25 Isaiah 33:6; Psalm 16:5–6; Genesis 15:1; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 84:11
  25. 26 Isaiah 58:14; Psalm 37:4; Job 27:10; Job 11:15; Romans 7:22
  26. 27 Isaiah 58:9; 1 John 5:14–15; Psalm 116:1; Psalm 91:15; Psalm 50:14–15
  27. 28 Matthew 21:22; Psalm 90:17; Psalm 20:4; Isaiah 30:21; Proverbs 4:18
  28. 29 Job 5:19–27; James 4:6; Luke 1:52; 1 Peter 5:5; Matthew 23:12
  29. 30 Job 42:7–8; James 5:15–16; Genesis 18:26–32; Psalm 18:20; Acts 27:24

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences