Job 22

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1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2 how can a man be profitable to God? Reasonable profitable unto himself.
3 What a pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? And if he will benefit from that, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4 Is he afraid of you, take with you into the contest, go to sue you?

5 Is not thy wickedness great, and thine iniquities.
6 Thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Weary thirst not given water to drink and hungry withheld bread;
8 a mighty man [gave] the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
9 Thou hast sent widows with nothing and orphans left empty-handed.
10 For the loop around you, and sudden fear troubleth thee,
eleven Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover you.
12 Is not God above the heavens? Look up at the stars, how high they are!
13 And you say, What does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14 The clouds - a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks [only] the celestial circle.

15 Have you marked the old way by which wicked men,
16 that prematurely were destroyed when the water overflowed, whose foundation?
17 They said to God, Depart from us! and that will make them the Almighty?
18 Yet he filled their houses with good. But the counsel of the wicked be far from me!
19 The righteous see it and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn:
20 our enemy is destroyed, and the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

21 Acquaint now thyself with Him - and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Accept the law from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, be built up, you take away the iniquity of thy tent
24 and thou shalt lay in ashes shiny metal and stones in streams - [gold] Ophir.
25 And the Almighty will be your gold and shiny silver from you,
26 For then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
27 Prayer to him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28 Put intent, and it will take you, and on the ways of thy light shall shine.
29 When someone is afflicted, you say the rise! and he will save the humble presence,
thirty deliver and nebezvinnogo, and he saved the purity of your hands.

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