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Job - ch 22 v 1 - 20
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
- Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?
- Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
- Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
- For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
- But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
- You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
- or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
- "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
- You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
- Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
- Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
- who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
- who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
- Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
- saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
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