Job 22

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.Cross-references: Deut 10:13 · Job 21:15 · Job 35:6 · Ps 16:2 · Prov 3:13 · Prov 4:7 · +5 more

3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?Cross-references: 1Chr 29:17 · Job 23:10 · Ps 39:1 · Ps 119:3 · Ps 119:59 · Ps 147:10 · +8 more

4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?Cross-references: Job 7:12 · Job 9:19 · Job 9:32 · Job 14:3 · Job 16:21 · Job 19:29 · +10 more

5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.Cross-references: Job 4:7 · Job 11:6 · Job 11:14 · Job 15:5 · Job 15:31 · Job 21:27 · +3 more

6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.Cross-references: Ex 22:26 · Deut 24:6 · Deut 24:10 · Job 24:3 · Job 24:9 · Job 31:19 · +4 more

7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Job 31:17 · Job 31:31 · Ps 112:9 · Prov 11:24 · Prov 19:17 · +6 more

8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:11 · Job 13:8 · Job 29:7 · Job 31:34 · Ps 12:8 · Isa 3:3 · +2 more

9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.Cross-references: Ex 22:21 · Deut 27:19 · Job 24:3 · Job 24:21 · Job 29:12 · Job 31:16 · +11 more

10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,Cross-references: Job 6:4 · Job 13:21 · Job 18:8 · Job 19:6 · Ps 11:6 · Prov 1:27 · +2 more

11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.Cross-references: Job 5:14 · Job 18:6 · Job 18:18 · Job 19:8 · Job 38:34 · Ps 42:7 · +9 more

12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!Cross-references: Job 11:8 · Ps 8:3 · Ps 115:3 · Ps 115:16 · Eccl 5:2 · Isa 57:15 · +1 more

13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?Cross-references: Ps 10:11 · Ps 59:7 · Ps 64:5 · Ps 73:11 · Ps 94:7 · Isa 29:15 · +3 more

14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’Cross-references: Job 26:9 · Job 34:22 · Ps 33:14 · Ps 97:2 · Ps 139:1 · Ps 139:11 · +2 more

15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 6:11 · Luke 17:26

16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,Cross-references: Gen 7:11 · Gen 7:17 · Job 14:19 · Job 15:32 · Ps 55:23 · Ps 102:24 · +5 more

17who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’Cross-references: Job 21:10 · Job 21:14 · Ps 4:6 · Isa 30:11 · Mal 3:14 · Matt 8:29 · +2 more

18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:7 · Job 12:6 · Job 21:16 · Ps 1:1 · Ps 17:14 · Jer 12:2 · +2 more

19The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,Cross-references: Job 9:23 · Ps 48:11 · Ps 52:6 · Ps 58:10 · Ps 97:8 · Ps 107:42 · +3 more

20saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Job 1:16 · Job 4:7 · Job 8:3 · Job 15:5 · Job 15:30 · +6 more

21“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.Cross-references: 1Chr 28:9 · Ps 34:10 · Isa 27:5 · Isa 57:19 · Matt 5:25 · John 17:3 · +5 more

22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.Cross-references: Deut 4:1 · Deut 6:6 · Job 23:12 · Ps 119:11 · Prov 2:1 · Prov 4:4 · +7 more

23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.Cross-references: Josh 7:13 · Job 8:5 · Job 11:13 · Job 12:14 · Job 18:15 · Isa 19:22 · +11 more

24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.Cross-references: Gen 10:29 · 1Ki 9:28 · 1Ki 10:21 · 1Ki 22:48 · 2Chr 1:5 · 2Chr 9:10 · +4 more

25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Ps 16:5 · Ps 18:2 · Ps 84:11 · Isa 33:6 · Isa 41:10 · +3 more

26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.Cross-references: Job 11:15 · Job 27:10 · Job 34:9 · Ps 25:1 · Ps 37:4 · Ps 86:4 · +5 more

27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.Cross-references: Job 33:26 · Job 34:28 · Ps 50:14 · Ps 56:12 · Ps 66:13 · Ps 66:17 · +7 more

28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.Cross-references: Job 29:3 · Ps 20:4 · Ps 90:17 · Ps 97:11 · Ps 112:4 · Prov 4:18 · +6 more

29When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.Cross-references: Job 5:19 · Ps 9:2 · Ps 91:14 · Ps 92:9 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 29:23 · +9 more

30He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”Cross-references: Gen 18:26 · Job 42:7 · Ps 18:20 · Ps 24:4 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 58:12 · +7 more