Job 22 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Can a man be profitable to God? Can a wise man be profitable to him? “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 Does it please the Almighty that you are just? Does he gain if your ways are perfect? 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 Is it because of your piety that he reproves you— that he enters into judgment with you? 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 Is not your wickedness great, your iniquity endless? Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
6 You keep your relatives’ goods in pledge unjustly, leave them stripped naked of their clothing. 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 To the thirsty you give no water to drink, and from the hungry you withhold bread; 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 As if the land belonged to the powerful, and only the privileged could dwell 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 sent widows away empty-handed, and the resources of orphans are destroyed. 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 Therefore snares are round about you, sudden terror makes you panic, 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 Or darkness—you cannot see! A deluge of waters 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 Does not God, in the heights of the heavens, behold the top of the stars, high though they 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 Yet you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? 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 Clouds hide him so that he cannot see as he walks around the circuit of the heavens!” 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 Do you indeed keep to the ancient way trodden by the worthless? 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 were snatched before their time; their foundations a river swept 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 said to God, “Let us alone!” and, “What can the Almighty do to 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 had filled their houses with good things. The designs of the wicked are far from me! 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 just look on and are glad, and the innocent deride them: 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 “Truly our enemies are destroyed, and what was left to them, fire has consumed!” 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 Settle with him and have peace. That way good shall come to you: “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 Receive instruction from his mouth, and place 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 be restored; if you put iniquity far from 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 treat raw gold as dust, the fine gold of Ophir as pebbles in the wadi, 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 himself shall be your gold and your sparkling 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 For then you shall delight in the Almighty, you shall lift up your face 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 Entreat him and he will hear you, and your vows you shall fulfill. 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 What you decide shall succeed for you, and upon your ways light shall shine. 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 For when they are brought low, you will say, “It is pride!” But downcast eyes he saves. 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 deliver whoever is innocent; you shall be delivered if your hands are clean. 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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