Old Testament · BSB
Job 22
Berean Standard Bible · 30 verses
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
- Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
- Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
- Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
- For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
- You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
- it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
- Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
- Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
- They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
- They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
- The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:
- ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
- Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
- Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
- If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
- Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
- You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
- Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
- When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
- He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”