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1611 King James Bible

Job 22

  1. Job 22:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
  2. Job 22:2 Can a man be profitable vnto God? as hee that is wise may be profitable vnto himselfe.
  3. Job 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gaine to him, that thou makest thy waies perfite?
  4. Job 22:4 Will hee reproue thee for feare of thee? will he enter with thee into iudgment?
  5. Job 22:5 Is not thy wickednesse great? and thine iniquities infinite?
  6. Job 22:6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
  7. Job 22:7 Thou hast not giuen water to the wearie to drinke, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
  8. Job 22:8 But as for the mightie man, hee had the earth, and the honourable man dwelt in it.
  9. Job 22:9 Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.
  10. Job 22:10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden feare troubleth thee,
  11. Job 22:11 Or darkenes that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters couer thee.
  12. Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heauen? and behold the height of the starres how high they are.
  13. Job 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
  14. Job 22:14 Thicke cloudes are a couering to him that he seeth not, and hee walketh in the circuit of heauen.
  15. Job 22:15 Hast thou marked the olde way which wicked men haue troden?
  16. Job 22:16 Which were cut downe out of time, whose foundation was ouerflowen with a flood.
  17. Job 22:17 Which said vnto God, Depart from vs, and what can the Almightie doe for them?
  18. Job 22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.
  19. Job 22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorne.
  20. Job 22:20 Whereas our substance is not cut downe, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
  21. Job 22:21 Acquaint now thy selfe with him, and be at peace: thereby good shal come vnto thee.
  22. Job 22:22 Receiue, I pray thee, the Lawe from his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
  23. Job 22:23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be built vp, thou shalt put away iniquitie farre from thy tabernacles.
  24. Job 22:24 Then shalt thou lay vp golde as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes.
  25. Job 22:25 Yea the Almightie shall bee thy defence, and thou shalt haue plenty of siluer.
  26. Job 22:26 For then shalt thou haue thy delight in the Almightie, and shalt lift vp thy face vnto God.
  27. Job 22:27 Thou shalt make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt pay thy vowes.
  28. Job 22:28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shal be established vnto thee: and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
  29. Job 22:29 When men are cast downe, then thou shalt say, There is lifting vp: and he shall saue the humble person.
  30. Job 22:30 He shall deliuer the Iland of the innocent: and it is deliuered by the purenesse of thine hands.