Job 22:1-30 CSB

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: [2] Can a man be of any use to God? Can even a wise man be of use to him? [3] Does it delight the Almighty if you are righteous? Does he profit if you perfect your behavior? [4] Does he correct you and take you to court because of your piety? [5] Isn't your wickedness abundant and aren't your iniquities endless? [6] For you took collateral from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked. [7] You gave no water to the thirsty and withheld food from the famished, [8] while the land belonged to a powerful man and an influential man lived on it. [9] You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed. [10] Therefore snares surround you, and sudden dread terrifies you, [11] or darkness, so you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. [12] Isn't God as high as the heavens? And look at the highest stars-how lofty they are! [13] Yet you say, "What does God know? Can he judge through total darkness? [14] Clouds veil him so that he cannot see, as he walks on the circle of the sky." [15] Will you continue on the ancient path that wicked men have walked? [16] They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were washed away by a river. [17] They were the ones who said to God, "Leave us alone!" and "What can the Almighty do to us?" [18] But it was he who filled their houses with good things. The counsel of the wicked is far from me! [19] The righteous see this and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying, [20] "Surely our opponents are destroyed, and fire has consumed what they left behind." [21] Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you. [22] Receive instruction from his mouth, and place his sayings in your heart. [23] If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent [24] and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis, [25] the Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver. [26] Then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. [27] You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. [28] When you make a decision, it will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways. [29] When others are humiliated and you say, "Lift them up," God will save the humble. [30] He will even rescue the guilty one, who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.