Job 22 · Clearspring

Eliphaz: Can a Man Be of Use to God?

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,+ ²Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?+ ³Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?+ ⁴Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?+ ⁵Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?+ ⁶For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.+ ⁷Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.+ ⁸But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.+ ⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.+ ¹⁰Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;+ ¹¹Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.+ ¹²Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!+ ¹³And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?+ ¹⁴Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.+ ¹⁵Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?+ ¹⁶Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:+ ¹⁷Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?+ ¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.+ ¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.+ ²⁰Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.+ ²¹Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.+ ²²Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.+ ²³If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.+ ²⁴Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.+ ²⁵Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.+ ²⁶For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.+ ²⁷Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.+ ²⁸Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.+ ²⁹When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.+ ³⁰He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.+

Eliphaz: Can a Man Be of Use to God?

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