Job 22 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “Can a person do anything to help God? Can even a wise person be helpful 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 Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous? Would it be any gain to him if you were 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 you’re so pious that he accuses you and brings judgment against 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 No, it’s because of your wickedness! There’s no limit to your sins. Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
6 “For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone. 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 must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry. 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 You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to 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 must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans. 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 you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears. 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 you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover 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 “God is so great—higher than the heavens, higher than the farthest stars. “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 But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How 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 For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’ 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 “Will you continue on the old paths where evil people have walked? 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 away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed 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 For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone! 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 was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind 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 will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt. 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 They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’ 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 “Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for 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 Listen to his instructions, and store them 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— so clean up your life. 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 If you give up your lust for money and throw your precious gold into the river, 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 the Almighty himself will be your treasure. He will be your precious 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 take delight in the Almighty and look up to 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 hear you, and you will fulfill your vows 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 You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, and light will shine on the road ahead of you. 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 If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’ God will save them. 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 Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure.” 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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