en_wbms - Job 22 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answer-ed, and said,

² Whether a man, yea, when he is of perfect knowing, may be compar-isoned to God?

³ What profiteth it to God, if thou art just [or rightwise]? either what shalt thou give to him, if thy life is without wem?

⁴ Whether he shall dread, and shall he reprove thee, and shall he come with thee into doom,

⁵ and not for thy full much malice, and thy wickednesses without number, these pains have fallen justly to thee?

⁶ For thou hast taken away without cause the wed of thy brethren; and hast spoiled naked men of clothes.

⁷ Thou gavest not water to the faint man; and thou withdrewest bread from the hungry man.

⁸ In the strength of thine arm, thou haddest the land in possession; and thou, most mighty, heldest it.

⁹ Thou lettest widows go away void, or unhelped; and all-brakest the shoulders of fatherless children.

¹⁰ Therefore thou art now encom-passed with snares; and sudden dread troubleth thee.

¹¹ And thou guessedest, that thou shouldest not see darknesses; and that thou shouldest not be oppressed with the fierceness of waters flowing.

¹² Whether thou thinkest not, that God is higher than heaven, and is enhanced above the top of stars?

¹³ And yet thou sayest, What soothly knoweth God? and, He deemeth as by darkness.

¹⁴ A cloud is his hiding place, and he beholdeth not our things, and he goeth about the hinges of heaven, that is, the principal parts of heaven.

¹⁵ Whether thou covetest to keep to the path of world’s, that is, the life of men living worldly and dissolutely, which wicked men have oft gone?

¹⁶ Which were taken away before their time, and the flood destroyed the foundament of them.

¹⁷ Which said to God, Go thou away from us; and as if Almighty God may do nothing, they guessed him,

¹⁸ when he had filled their houses with goods; the sentence of which men be far from me.

¹⁹ Just [or Rightwise] men shall see, and shall be glad; and an innocent man shall scorn them.

²⁰ Whether the up-raising of them is not cut down, and fire shall devour the remnants of them?

²¹ Therefore assent thou to God, and have thou peace; and by these things thou shalt have best fruits.

²² Take thou the law of his mouth, and set [or put] thou his words in thine heart.

²³ If thou turnest again to Almighty God, thou shalt be builded [up]; and thou shalt make wickedness far from thy tabernacle.

²⁴ He shall give a flint for earth, and golden strands [or streams] for a flint.

²⁵ And Almighty God shall be against thine enemies; and silver shall be gathered together to thee.

²⁶ Then on Almighty God thou shalt flow with delights; and thou shalt raise up thy face to God.

²⁷ Thou shalt pray him, and he shall hear thee; and thou shalt yield thy vows.

²⁸ Thou shalt deem a thing, and it shall come to thee; and light shall shine in thy ways.

²⁹ For he that is meeked shall be in glory; and he that boweth down his eyes, shall be saved.

³⁰ An innocent shall be saved; soothly he shall be saved in the cleanness of his hands.