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22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
22:2  “Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to Him that thou makest thy ways perfect?
22:4  Will He reprove thee for fear of thee? Will He enter with thee into judgment?
22:5  Is not thy wickedness great, and thine iniquities infinite?
22:6  For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
22:7  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.
22:8  But as for the mighty man, he had the earth, and the honorable man dwelt in it.
22:9  Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
22:10  Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth 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 heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
22:13  And thou sayest, ‘How doth God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
22:14  Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He seeth not; and He walketh in the circuit of heaven.’
22:15  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,
22:16  who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood,
22:17  who said unto God, ‘Depart from us. And what can the Almighty do to them?’
22:18  Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
22:19  The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn;
22:20  whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
22:21  “Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at 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 tabernacles.
22:24  Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be thy gold, 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 men 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 it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.”