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Read Job 22

World English Bible · 30 verses

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ “Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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