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22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
22:2 May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
22:3 Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
22:4 Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
22:5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
22:6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
22:7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
22:8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
22:9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
22:11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
22:12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
22:13 But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
22:14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
22:15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
22:16 Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
22:17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
22:18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
22:19 The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
22:20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
22:21 Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
22:22 Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
22:23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
22:24 Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
22:25 Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
22:26 And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
22:27 Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
22:29 When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
22:30 The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.