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22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
22:2  “Can a man be profitable to God, as he who is wise may be profitable to himself?
22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?
22:4  “Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, and enters into judgment with you?
22:5  Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity infinite?
22:6  For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
22:7  You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
22:8  But as for the mighty man, he possessed the earth, and the honorable man lived in it.
22:9  You have sent widows away empty, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
22:10  Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you,
22:11  or darkness, so that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.
22:12  “Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the height of the stars, how high they are!
22:13  And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
22:14  Thick clouds are His covering, so He cannot see; and He walks above the circle of heaven.’
22:15  Will you keep to the old way, that wicked men have trod?
22:16  They were cut down before their time; their foundations were swept away by a flood.
22:17  They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
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  ‘Surely our adversaries are cut down, and the fire consumes their remnant.’
22:21  “Now acquaint yourself with Him and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
22:22  Receive, I pray, the teaching from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
22:23  If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; you will put away iniquity far from your tents.
22:24  Then you will lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
22:25  Yes, the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver;
22:26  for then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face unto God.
22:27  You will make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
22:28  You will also declare a matter, and it will be established unto you; and the light will shine upon your ways.
22:29  When men are cast down, and you say, ‘There is a time of exaltation!’ then He will save the humble person.
22:30  He will even deliver one who is not innocent; he will be delivered by the purity of your hands.”