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            <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a man be of benefit to God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">Can even a wise person benefit him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">What would he gain if your ways were blameless?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is it for your piety that he rebukes you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">and brings charges against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is not your wickedness great?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">Are not your sins endless?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You gave no water to the weary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">and you withheld food from the hungry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">though you were a powerful man, owning land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">an honored man, living on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And you sent widows away empty-handed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">and broke the strength of the fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why snares are all around you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">why sudden peril terrifies you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">why it is so dark you cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">and why a flood of water covers you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not God in the heights of heaven?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">And see how lofty are the highest stars!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet you say, &#8216;What does God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">Does he judge through such darkness?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Will you keep to the old path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">that the wicked have trod?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They were carried off before their time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">their foundations washed away by a flood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They said to God, &#8216;Leave us alone!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">What can the Almighty do to us?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous see their ruin and rejoice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">the innocent mock them, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8216;Surely our foes are destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">and fire devours their wealth.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Submit to God and be at peace with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">in this way prosperity will come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Accept instruction from his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">and lay up his words in your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">If you remove wickedness far from your tent</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and assign your nuggets to the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then the Almighty will be your gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">the choicest silver for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">and will lift up your face to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will pray to him, and he will hear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">and you will fulfill your vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">What you decide on will be done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">and light will shine on your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When people are brought low and you say, &#8216;Lift them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">then he will save the downcast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will deliver even one who is not innocent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.22.30"><span class="content">who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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