Douay Bible - Job Chapter 22

Job 22:1
Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

Job 22:2
Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 22:3
What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

Job 22:4
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

Job 22:5
And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?

Job 22:6
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7
Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Job 22:8
In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

Job 22:10
Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Job 22:12
Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

Job 22:13
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Job 22:14
The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.

Job 22:15
Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?

Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Job 22:17
Who said to God: depart from us: and looked upon the almighty as if he could do nothing:

Job 22:18
Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.

Job 22:19
The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.

Job 22:20
Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?

Job 22:21
Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.

Job 22:22
Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Job 22:23
If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

Job 22:24
He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.

Job 22:25
And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.

Job 22:26
Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

Job 22:27
Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

Job 22:28
Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

Job 22:29
For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

Job 22:30
The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

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