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Job 22 📜 📕 ↷
Eliphaz: Can a Man Be of Use to God?
1 BUT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:📜💬📚
2 Can man be compared with God, yea though he be of perfect knowledge?📜💬📚
3 What doth it profit God if thou be just? Or what doest thou advantage him if thy way be unspotted?📜💬📚
4 Shall he be afraid to reprove thee, and come with thee into judgment:📜💬📚
5 And not for thy very great malice, and thine infinite iniquities?📜💬📚
6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and the naked thou hast spoiled of cloths.📜💬📚
7 Water to the weary thou hast not given, and from the hungry thou hast withdrawn bread.📜💬📚
8 In the strength of thine arm thou didst possess the earth, and being the mightiest thou didst obtain it.📜💬📚
9 Widows thou hast sent away empty, and the arms of pupils thou hast broken in pieces.📜💬📚
10 Therefore art thou compassed with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.📜💬📚
11 And thoughtest thou that thou shouldest not see darkness, and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the violence of overflowing waters?📜💬📚
12 Doest thou not think that God is higher than heaven, and is exalted above the top of the stars?📜💬📚
13 And thou sayst: For what knoweth God? And he judgeth as it were by a mist.📜💬📚
14 The clouds are his covert, neither doth he consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.📜💬📚
15 Doest thou covet to keep the path of worlds, which wicked men have trodden?📜💬📚
16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.📜💬📚
17 Who said to God: Depart from us; and as though the Omnipotent could do nothing, they esteemed him:📜💬📚
18 Whereas he had filled their houses with good things, whose sentence be far from me.📜💬📚
19 The just shall see, & shall rejoice, & the innocent man shall scorn them.📜💬📚
20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?📜💬📚
21 Agree thou therefore to him, and have peace: and by these things thou shalt have the best fruits.📜💬📚
22 Receive the law of his mouth, and put his words in thy heart.📜💬📚
23 If thou wilt return to the Omnipotent, thou shalt be builded up, and shalt make iniquity far from thy tabernacle.📜💬📚
24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.📜💬📚
25 And the Omnipotent shall be against thine enemies, and silver shall be heaped together unto thee.📜💬📚
26 Then shalt thou abound in delights upon the Omnipotent, and shalt lift up thy face to God.📜💬📚
27 Thou shalt ask him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.📜💬📚
28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.📜💬📚
29 For who will be humbled, shall be in glory: & he that will bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.📜💬📚
30 The innocent shall be saved, but shall be saved in the cleanness of his hands.📜💬📚
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