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| The Book of Job 22 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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| Job 22:7 | Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.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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