{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/22","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:39:48.375Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":22,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":21,"nextChapter":23,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"|Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 22 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 22](https://primebible.com/web/job/22)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/22 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}