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