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22:1  Then Eliphaz from Teman answered:
22:2  Can a human being be useful to God? Can an intelligent person bring profit?
22:3  Does the Almighty delight in your innocence? Does he gain when you perfect your ways?
22:4  Does he rebuke you for your piety, bring you in for judgment?
22:5  Isn’t your wickedness massive, your iniquity endless?
22:6  You have taken payments from your family for no reason; stripped the naked, leaving no clothes;
22:7  denied water to the thirsty, withheld bread from the starving.
22:8  ( The powerful own land; the favored live in it.)
22:9  You have sent widows away empty; crushed orphans’ resources.
22:10  For this reason, snares surround you; sudden dread brings panic to you
22:11  or a darkness that you can’t see; rushing water will cover you.
22:12  Isn’t God in the heights of heaven; see how high the topmost stars are?
22:13  You say: “What does God know? Can he judge through thick clouds?
22:14  Clouds conceal him so he can’t see while he walks on heaven’s rim.”
22:15  Will you keep the ancient way traveled by sinful persons,
22:16  who were snatched prematurely when a river flooded their foundations,
22:17  who say to God, “Turn away from us; what can the Almighty do to us?”
22:18  Yet he filled their houses with good things; a sinner’s logic is beyond me.
22:19  The righteous see and rejoice; the innocent mock them:
22:20  our enemies are certainly cut off; fire will devour what’s left of them.
22:21  Get along well with God and be at peace; from this something good will come to you.
22:22  Receive instruction from his mouth; put his words in your mind.
22:23  If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; if you keep wrongdoing out of your tent.
22:24  Lay your prized possession in the dust, your gold from Ophir on a rock in a desert streambed.
22:25  The Almighty will be your prized possession, silver piled up for you.
22:26  Then you will take pleasure in the Almighty; lift up your face to God.
22:27  You will pray to him, and he will hear you; you will fulfill your solemn promises.
22:28  If you decree something, it will stand; light will shine on your ways.
22:29  When they’re humbled, you will say: “Cheer up; God will rescue the lowly.
22:30  He will deliver the guilty; they will be saved by your pure hands.”