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Job 22
Job 22
English God's Word - GW 1995
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Then Eliphaz from Teman replied {to Job},
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"Can a human be of any use to God when even a wise person is only useful to himself?
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Is the Almighty pleased when you are righteous? Does he gain anything when you follow the path of integrity?
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Does God correct you and bring you into a court of law because you fear him?
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"Aren't you really very wicked? Is there no end to your wrongdoing?
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For no reason you take your brothers' goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes.
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You don't even give a tired person a drink of water, and you take food away from hungry people.
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A strong person owns the land. A privileged person lives in it.
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You send widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans are broken.
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That is why traps are all around you and great fear suddenly grips you.
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{That is why} darkness surrounds you and you cannot see and a flood of water covers you.
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"Isn't God high above in the heavens? Look how high the highest stars are!
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You ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge {anything} from behind a dark cloud?
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Thick clouds surround him so that he cannot see. He walks above the clouds.'
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"Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken?
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They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away.
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They told God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do for us?'
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Yet, he filled their homes with good things. (The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.)
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The righteous saw it and were glad, and the innocent made fun of them by saying,
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'Indeed, their wealth has been wiped out, and a fire has burned up what {little} they had left.'
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"Be in harmony and at peace with God. In this way you will have prosperity.
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Accept instruction from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart.
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If you return to the Almighty, you will prosper. If you put wrongdoing out of your tent,
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and lay your gold down in the dust, and put your gold from Ophir among the pebbles in the rivers,
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then the Almighty will become your gold and your large supply of silver.
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Then you will be happy with the Almighty and look up toward God.
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You will pray to him, and he will listen to you, and you will keep your vow to him.
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When you promise to do something, you will succeed, and light will shine on your path.
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When others are discouraged, you will say, 'Cheer up!' Then he will save the humble person.
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He will rescue one who is not innocent. That person will be rescued by your purity."
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