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Iob 22

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

²Can a man be profitable vnto God? as hee that is wise may be profitable vnto himselfe.

³Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gaine to him, that thou makest thy waies perfite?

⁴Will hee reproue thee for feare of thee? will he enter with thee into iudgment?

⁵Is not thy wickednesse 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 giuen water to the wearie to drinke, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

⁸But as for the mightie man, hee had the earth, and the honourable man dwelt in it.

⁹Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.

¹⁰Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden feare troubleth thee,

¹¹Or darkenes that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters couer thee.

¹²Is not God in the height of heauen? and behold the height of the starres how high they are.

¹³And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

¹⁴Thicke cloudes are a couering to him that he seeth not, and hee walketh in the circuit of heauen.

¹⁵Hast thou marked the olde way which wicked men haue troden?

¹⁶Which were cut downe out of time, whose foundation was ouerflowen with a flood.

¹⁷Which said vnto God, Depart from vs, and what can the Almightie doe for them?

¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.

¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorne.

²⁰Whereas our substance is not cut downe, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

²¹Acquaint now thy selfe with him, and be at peace: thereby good shal come vnto thee.

²²Receiue, I pray thee, the Lawe from his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

²³If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be built vp, thou shalt put away iniquitie farre from thy tabernacles.

²⁴Then shalt thou lay vp golde as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes.

²⁵Yea the Almightie shall bee thy defence, and thou shalt haue plenty of siluer.

²⁶For then shalt thou haue thy delight in the Almightie, and shalt lift vp thy face vnto God.

²⁷Thou shalt make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt pay thy vowes.

²⁸Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shal be established vnto thee: and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.

²⁹When men are cast downe, then thou shalt say, There is lifting vp: and he shall saue the humble person.

³⁰He shall deliuer the Iland of the innocent: and it is deliuered by the purenesse of thine hands.