Job 22

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:	1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2 Can a man be profitable to God? Though to himself a wise man be profitable!	2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
3 Is it of advantage to the Almighty if you are just? Or is it a gain to him if you make your ways perfect?	3 What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
4 Is it because of your piety that he reproves you-- that he enters with you into judgment?	4 Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
5 Is not your wickedness manifold? Are not your iniquities endless?	5 And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
6 You have unjustly kept your kinsmen's goods in pawn, left them stripped naked of their clothing.	6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 To the thirsty you have given no water to drink, and from the hungry you have withheld bread;	7 Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
8 As if the land belonged to the man of might, and only the privileged were to dwell in it.	8 In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
9 You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the resources of orphans you have destroyed.	9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
10 Therefore snares are round about you, and a sudden terror causes you dismay,	10 Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
11 Or darkness, in which you cannot see; a deluge of waters covers you.	11 And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
12 Does not God, in the heights of the heavens, behold the stars, high though they are?	12 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
13 Yet you say, "What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?	13 And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14 Clouds hide him so that he cannot see; he walks upon the vault of the heavens!"	14 The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
15 Do you indeed keep to the ancient way trodden by worthless men,	15 Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
16 Who were snatched away before their time; whose foundations a flood swept away?	16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
17 These men said to God, "Depart from us!" and, "What can the Almighty do to us?"	17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
18 (Yet he had filled their houses with good things! But far be from me the mind of the impious!)	18 Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
19 The just look on and are gladdened, and the innocent deride them:	19 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20 "Truly these have been destroyed where they stood, and such as were left, fire has consumed!"	20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21 Come to terms with him to be at peace. In this shall good come to you:	21 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
22 Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.	22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; if you put iniquity far from your tent,	23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
24 And treat raw gold like dust, and the fine gold of Ophir as pebbles from the brook,	24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
25 Then the Almighty himself shall be your gold and your sparkling silver.	25 And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
26 For then you shall delight in the Almighty and you shall lift up your face toward God.	26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
27 You shall entreat him and he will hear you, and your vows you shall fulfill.	27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
28 When you make a decision, it shall succeed for you, and upon your ways the light shall shine.	28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
29 For he brings down the pride of the haughty, but the man of humble mien he saves.	29 For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
30 God delivers him who is innocent; you shall be delivered through cleanness of hands.	30 The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.