022:001 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
022:002 | Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? |
022:003 | Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? |
022:004 | Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? |
022:005 | Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? |
022:006 | For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. |
022:007 | Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. |
022:008 | But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. |
022:009 | Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. |
022:010 | Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; |
022:011 | Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. |
022:012 | Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! |
022:013 | And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? |
022:014 | Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. |
022:015 | Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? |
022:016 | Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: |
022:017 | Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? |
022:018 | Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
022:019 | The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. |
022:020 | Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. |
022:021 | Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. |
022:022 | Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. |
022:023 | If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. |
022:024 | Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. |
022:025 | Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. |
022:026 | For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. |
022:027 | Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. |
022:028 | Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. |
022:029 | When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. |
022:030 | He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. |
023:001 | Then Job answered and said, |
023:002 | Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. |
023:003 | Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! |
023:004 | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
023:005 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. |
023:006 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. |
023:007 | There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. |
023:008 | Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: |
023:009 | On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: |
023:010 | But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. |
023:011 | My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. |
023:012 | Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. |
023:013 | But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. |
023:014 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. |
023:015 | Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. |
023:016 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: |
023:017 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. |
024:001 | Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? |
024:002 | Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. |
024:003 | They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. |
024:004 | They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. |
024:005 | Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. |
024:006 | They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. |
024:007 | They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. |
024:008 | They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. |
024:009 | They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. |
024:010 | They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; |
024:011 | Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. |
024:012 | Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. |
024:013 | They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. |
024:014 | The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. |
024:015 | The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. |
024:016 | In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. |
024:017 | For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. |
024:018 | He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. |
024:019 | Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. |
024:020 | The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. |
024:021 | He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. |
024:022 | He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. |
024:023 | Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways. |
024:024 | They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. |
024:025 | And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? |
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