Job 22:1-16 ▼

1 So Eliphas the Themanite gaue aunswere, and sayde:

2 May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise may be profitable vnto him selfe?

3 Is it any aduauntage to the almightie that thou art righteous? or shall it profite him that thou makest thy wayes perfect?

4 Is he afrayde to reproue thee, and to step foorth with thee into iudgement?

5 Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?

6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.

7 To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it.

9 Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.

10 Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare.

11 Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?

12 Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are.

13 Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

14 Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.

15 Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked?

16 Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer.