Job 22 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz from Teman replied [to Job], Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 |Can a human be of any use to God when even a wise person is only useful to himself? “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. “Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him?
3 Is the Almighty pleased when you are righteous? Does he gain anything when you follow the path of integrity? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
4 Does God correct you and bring you into a court of law because you fear him? Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? “Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you?
5 |Aren't you really very wicked? Is there no end to your wrongdoing? Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
6 For no reason you take your brothers' goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes. For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing. You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
7 You don't even give a tired person a drink of water, and you take food away from hungry people. You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry,
8 A strong person owns the land. A privileged person lives in it. The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it. though you were a powerful man, owning land— an honored man, living on it.
9 You send widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans are broken. You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
10 That is why traps are all around you and great fear suddenly grips you. Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,
11 [That is why] darkness surrounds you and you cannot see and a flood of water covers you. or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
12 |Isn't God high above in the heavens? Look how high the highest stars are! “Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are! “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!
13 You ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge [anything] from behind a dark cloud? But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
14 Thick clouds surround him so that he cannot see. He walks above the clouds.' Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’ Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’
15 |Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken? Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod? Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?
16 They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away. They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
17 They told God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do for us?' They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’
18 Yet, he filled their homes with good things. (The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.) Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
19 The righteous saw it and were glad, and the innocent made fun of them by saying, The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them, The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,
20 'Indeed, their wealth has been wiped out, and a fire has burned up what [little] they had left.' saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’ Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’
21 |Be in harmony and at peace with God. In this way you will have prosperity. “Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. “Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.
22 Accept instruction from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart. Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will prosper. If you put wrongdoing out of your tent, If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents, If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent
24 and lay your gold down in the dust, and put your gold from Ophir among the pebbles in the rivers, if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
25 then the Almighty will become your gold and your large supply of silver. then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you.
26 Then you will be happy with the Almighty and look up toward God. For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God.
27 You will pray to him, and he will listen to you, and you will keep your vow to him. You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
28 When you promise to do something, you will succeed, and light will shine on your path. You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.
29 When others are discouraged, you will say, 'Cheer up!' Then he will save the humble person. For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly. When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
30 He will rescue one who is not innocent. That person will be rescued by your purity.| He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
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