# Job 22 
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1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 
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2. “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 
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3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? 
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4. Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? 
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5. Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. 
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6. For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing. 
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7. You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 
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8. The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it. 
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9. You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. 
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10. Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, 
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11. or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. 
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12. “Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are! 
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13. But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? 
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14. Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’ 
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15. Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod? 
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16. They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. 
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17. They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ 
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18. Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 
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19. The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them, 
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20. saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’ 
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21. “Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. 
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22. Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. 
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23. If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents, 
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24. if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, 
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25. then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. 
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26. For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. 
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27. You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. 
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28. You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. 
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29. For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly. 
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30. He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” 

(ESV)