### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 21

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 22
#### 1 | Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
#### 2 | Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
#### 3 | What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
#### 4 | Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
#### 5 | And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
#### 6 | For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
#### 7 | Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
#### 8 | In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
#### 9 | Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
#### 10 | Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
#### 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 | Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
#### 13 | And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
#### 14 | The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
#### 15 | Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
#### 16 | Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
#### 17 | Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
#### 18 | Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
#### 19 | The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
#### 20 | Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
#### 21 | Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
#### 22 | Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
#### 23 | If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
#### 24 | He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
#### 25 | And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
#### 26 | Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
#### 27 | Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
#### 28 | Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
#### 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 shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.

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