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Job · Chapter 22
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Can a man be profitable unto Elohim, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or
is it gain
to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
But
as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Therefore snares
are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Or darkness,
that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Is not Elohim in the height of shamayim? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
And thou sayest, How doth Elohim know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Thick clouds
are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of shamayim.
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Which said unto Elohim, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Yet he filled their houses with good
things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
The righteous see
it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Receive, I pray thee, the torah from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the
gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto Elohim.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
When
men are cast down, then thou shalt say,
There is
lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
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Job · Chapter 23
Then Job answered and said,
Even to day
is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Oh that I knew where I might find him!
that I might come
even to his seat!
I would order
my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words
which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Will he plead against me with
his great power? No; but he would put
strength in me.
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Behold, I go forward, but he
is not
there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold
him:
he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see
him:
But he knoweth the way that I take:
when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Neither have I gone back from the mitsvah of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary
food.
But he
is in one
mind, and who can turn him? and
what his nephesh desireth, even
that he doeth.
For he performeth
the thing that is appointed for me: and many such
things are with him.
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
For Elohim maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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Job · Chapter 24
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed
thereof.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Behold,
as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness
yieldeth food for them
and for
their children.
They reap
every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have
no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause
him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf
from the hungry;
Which make oil within their walls,
and tread
their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city, and the nephesh of the wounded crieth out: yet Elohim layeth not folly
to them.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth
his face.
In the dark they dig through houses,
which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
For the morning
is to them even as the shadow of death: if
one know
them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
He
is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters:
so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
He evil entreateth the barren that
beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no
man is sure of life.
Though it be given him
to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes
are upon their ways.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all
other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
And if
it be not
so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?