Job 22
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,🔗🔍
2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?🔗🔍
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?🔗🔍
4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?🔗🔍
5Is not thy wickedness 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 given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.🔗🔍
8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.🔗🔍
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.🔗🔍
10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;🔗🔍
11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.🔗🔍
12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!🔗🔍
13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?🔗🔍
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.🔗🔍
15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?🔗🔍
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:🔗🔍
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?🔗🔍
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.🔗🔍
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.🔗🔍
20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.🔗🔍
21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.🔗🔍
22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.🔗🔍
23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.🔗🔍
24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.🔗🔍
25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.🔗🔍
26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.🔗🔍
27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.🔗🔍
28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.🔗🔍
29When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.🔗🔍
30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.🔗🔍
2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?🔗🔍
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?🔗🔍
4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?🔗🔍
5Is not thy wickedness 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 given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.🔗🔍
8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.🔗🔍
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.🔗🔍
10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;🔗🔍
11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.🔗🔍
12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!🔗🔍
13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?🔗🔍
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.🔗🔍
15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?🔗🔍
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:🔗🔍
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?🔗🔍
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.🔗🔍
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.🔗🔍
20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.🔗🔍
21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.🔗🔍
22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.🔗🔍
23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.🔗🔍
24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.🔗🔍
25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.🔗🔍
26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.🔗🔍
27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.🔗🔍
28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.🔗🔍
29When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.🔗🔍
30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.🔗🔍
🤖 AI Commentary
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