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Job chapter 22

Then Eliphaz from answered:Can a man be to God? Even is only useful to himself.What does get out of it if you are ? What does he gain if is blameless?Is it because you that he corrects you — that he ?Isn’t your evil enormous — your past counting?You took your brother’s coat as security for nothing. You stripped the clothes off people who .You gave the exhausted man no water. You kept bread back from the hungry.The land went to whoever had . The man with settled down on it.You sent off with nothing in their hands, and the arms of orphans were crushed.That is why there are all around you, why sudden terror knocks the strength out of you,why the dark is too thick to see through, why goes over your head.Isn’t God up there at the top of the sky? Look at the highest stars — see how far up they are.And you say, “What does God know? Can he judge anything through ?”“Thick cloud wraps him, so he sees nothing. He strolls along .”Are you going to hold to that violent men walked before you?They were before their time. The river washed their foundation out from under them.They were the ones who said to God, “,” and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”And it was he who filled their houses with good things. . see it and celebrate. The innocent laugh at them:“Look — are wiped out, and fire has eaten what was left of them.” and . That is how good comes back to you.Take his straight from his mouth. Lay his words down inside you.If you to the Almighty you will be — if you drive injustice far from your tent,if you throw your down in the dust, your among the stones of the dry riverbed,then the Almighty himself will be , your .Then you will in the Almighty, and you will to God again.You will pray to him and he will listen, and you will make good on .You will decide on something and it will stand. .When men are brought down and you say, “,” he rescues the one .He will pull free even — set free by the you hold up for him.