Job 22 (DRA)

v1

Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

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Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

v3

What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

v4

Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

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And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?

v6

For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

v7

Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

v8

In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

v9

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

v10

Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

v11

And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

v12

Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

v13

And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

v14

The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.

v15

Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?

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Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

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Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

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Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.

v19

The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.

v20

Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?

v21

Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.

v22

Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

v23

If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

v24

He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

v25

And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.

v26

Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

v27

Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

v28

Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

v29

For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

v30

The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

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