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22:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,
22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God? For he that is wise is profitable unto himself.
22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art justified? Or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?
22:4  Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?
22:5  Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.
22:6  For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.
22:7  Thou didst not give water to drink to the weary, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.
22:8  But the man of means had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
22:9  Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
22:10  Therefore, snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee
22:11  or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
22:12  Is not God in the height of the heavens? Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
22:13  And thou shalt say, What does God know? How can he judge through the darkness?
22:14  Thick clouds are his hiding place, and he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.
22:15  Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?
22:16  Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.
22:17  Who said unto God, Depart from us; and what can the Almighty do unto us?
22:18  He had filled their houses with good things. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
22:19  The righteous shall see it and be glad; and the innocent laughs them to scorn.
22:20  Whereas our substance was not cut down, when the fire had consumed the rest of them.
22:21  Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.
22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;
22:24  then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
22:25  And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
22:29  When others are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.