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Job 22:1-30 (NLT)

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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: ² "Can a person do anything to help God? Can even a wise person be helpful to him? ³ Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous? Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect? ⁴ Is it because you're so pious that he accuses you and brings judgment against you? ⁵ No, it's because of your wickedness! There's no limit to your sins. ⁶ "For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone. ⁷ You must have refused water for the thirsty and food for the hungry. ⁸ You probably think the land belongs to the powerful and only the privileged have a right to it! ⁹ You must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans. ¹⁰ That is why you are surrounded by traps and tremble from sudden fears. ¹¹ That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you. ^{12 13} But you reply, 'That's why God can't see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness? ¹⁴ For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.' ¹⁵ "Will you continue on the old paths where evil people have walked? ¹⁶ They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away. ¹⁷ For they said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?' ¹⁸ Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking. ¹⁹ "The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt. ²⁰ They will say, 'See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.' ²¹ "Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you. ²² Listen to his instructions, and store them in your heart. ^{23 24} If you give up your lust for money and throw your precious gold into the river, ²⁵ the Almighty himself will be your treasure. He will be your precious silver! ²⁶ "Then you will take delight in the Almighty and look up to God. ²⁷ You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him. ²⁸ You will succeed in whatever you choose to do, and light will shine on the road ahead of you. ²⁹ If people are in trouble and you say, 'Help them,' God will save them. ³⁰ Even sinners will be rescued; they will be rescued because your hands are pure."


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

Definition(s):
Eliphaz (Ell-e-faz): the endeavor of God
Temanite (The-man-ight):