Job 22

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying:	1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2 Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?	2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
3 What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?	3 What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
4 Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,	4 Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
5 and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?	5 And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
6 For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them 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 You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.	7 Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
8 By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.	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, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.	9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
10 Because of this, you are surrounded by traps, and unexpected fears will disturb you.	10 Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
11 And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the on-rush of overflowing waters?	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 Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?	12 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
13 And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”	13 And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14 and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits 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 not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?	15 Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
16 These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.	16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
17 They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,	17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
18 though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.	18 Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
19 The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.	19 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
20 Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?	20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21 So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.	21 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
22 Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.	22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23 If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.	23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
24 He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.	24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
25 And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.	25 And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
26 Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.	26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
27 You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.	27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
28 You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.	28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
29 For he who had been humbled, will be in glory; and he who will lower his eyes, will be the one saved.	29 For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
30 The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.	30 The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.