Job 22:1-30
Eliphaz：Can a Man Be of Use to God？

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

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3 [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?

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4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

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5 [Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

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6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

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8 But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

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9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

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11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

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12 [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

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13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

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14 Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

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15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

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16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

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17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

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18 Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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19 The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

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

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21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

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22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

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23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

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24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

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25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

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26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

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27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

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28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

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29 When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

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30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

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