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Job 22:1-30 (AMP)

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¹ THEN ELIPHAZ the Temanite answered , ² Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he that is wise is profitable to himself. ³ Is it any pleasure or advantage to the Almighty that you are righteous (upright and in right standing with Him)? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect? ⁴ Is it for your fear of Him that He reproves you, that He enters with you into judgment? ⁵ Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities. ⁶ For you have taken pledges of your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸ But the man with power possessed the land, and the favored and accepted man dwelt in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. ¹⁰ Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles and overwhelms you; ¹¹ Your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. ¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! ¹³ Therefore you say, How and what does God know ? Can He judge through the thick darkness? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see, and He walks on the vault of the heavens. ¹⁵ Will you pay attention and keep to the old way that wicked men trod , ¹⁶ Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream ? ¹⁷ They said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for or to us? ¹⁸ Yet He filled their houses with good . But the counsel of the ungodly is far from me. ¹⁹ The righteous see it and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn , ²⁰ Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, and that which remained to them the fire has consumed. ²¹ Acquaint now yourself with Him and be at peace; by that good shall come to you. ²² Receive, I pray you, the law and instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart. ²³ If you return to the Almighty , you will be built up; if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents, ²⁴ If you lay gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brook , ²⁵ And make the Almighty your gold and your precious silver treasure, ²⁶ Then you will have delight in the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God. ²⁷ You will make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you, and you will pay your vows. ²⁸ You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light shall shine upon your ways. ²⁹ When they make low, you will say, a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves. ³⁰ He will even deliver the one who is not innocent; yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 29) Humility - Men brought low - God says `Lift them up!'

Definition(s):
Ophir (Oh-fir): fruitful region
Temanite (The-man-ight):