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Job 22

2 Elipház affirmeth that Job is punished for his sinnes. 6 He accuseth him of unmercifulnes, 13 And that he denied God’s providence. 21 He exhorteth him to repentance.
1.Then Elipház the Temanite answered, and said,
2.May a man be aprofitable unto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to him self?
3.*Is it any thing unto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes upright?
4.Is it for feare bof thee that he wil accuse thee? or go with thee in to judgement?
5.Is not thy wickednes great, & thine iniquities innumerable?
6.For thou hast taken the cpledge from thy brother for noght, and spoiled the clothes of the naked.
7.To suche as were weary, thou hast not given water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
8.But the mightie man dhad the earth, and he that was in authoritie, dwelt in it.
9.Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of ethe fatherles were broken.
10.Therefore snares are rounde about thee, and feare shal sodenly trouble thee:
11.Or darkenes that thou shuldest not se, and fabundance of waters shal cover thee.
12.Is not God on ghie in the heaven? and beholde the height of the hstarres how hie they are.
13.But thou saiest, How shulde God iknow? can he judge through the darke cloude?
14.The cloudes hide him that he can not se, and he walketh in the circle of heaven.
15.Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, kwherein wicked men have walked?
16.Which were lcut downe before the time, whose fundacion was as a river that overflowed:
17.Which said unto God, Departe from us, and asked what the Almightie colde do for them.
18.Yet he mfilled their houses with good things: but let the counsel of the wicked be farre from me.
19.The righteous shal se them, and shal rejoyce, nand the innocent shal laugh them to scorne.
20.Surely oour substance is hid: but the fyre hathe devoured the remnant of pthem.
21.Therefore acquaint thy self, I pray thee, qwith him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt have prosperitie.
22.Receive, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and laie up his wordes in thine heart.
23.If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt rbe buylt up, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
24.Thou shalt lay up golde for sdust, and the golde of Ophir, as the flints of the rivers.
25.Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt have plentie of silver.
26.And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift up thy face unto God.
27.Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shal heare thee, and thou shalt rendre thy vowes.
28.Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shal establish it unto thee, and the tlight shal shine upon thy waies.
29.uWhen others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted up: and God shal save the humble person.
30.The innocent shal deliver the xyland, & it shalbe preserved by the purenes of thine hands.

Notes

2-a.
Though man were just, yet God could have no profit of this his justice: and therefore when he punishes him, he has no regard to his justice, but to his sin.
3-*.
Ch. 35.7.
4-b.
Lest you should reprove or hurt him?
6-c.
You have been cruel and without charity, and would do nothing for the poor, but for your own advantage.
8-d.
When you were in power and authority, you did not justice, but wrong.
9-e.
You have not only not showed pity but oppressed them.
11-f.
That is, manifold afflictions.
12-g.
He accused Job of impiety and contempt of God, as though he would say, If you pass not for men, yet consider the height of God’s majesty.
12-h.
That so much the more by that excellent work you may fear God and reverence him.
13-i.
He reproves Job as though he denied God’s providence, and that he could not see the things that were done in this world.
15-k.
How God has punished them from the beginning? 1 Geneva Bible 1560
16-l.
He proves God’s providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he takes away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass
18-m.
He answers to that, which Job had said Chap. 21.7 that the wicked have prosperity in this world: desiring that he might not be partaker of the like.
19-n.
The just rejoice at the destruction of the wicked for two causes: first, because God shows himself judge of the world, and by this means continues his honour and glory: secondly, because God shows that he has care over his in that he punishes their enemies.
20-o.
That is, the state and preservation of the godly is hid under God’s wings.
20-p.
Meaning, of the wicked.
21-q.
He exhorts Job to repentance and to return to God.
23-r.
God will restore unto you all your substance.
24-s.
Which shall be in abundance like dust.
28-t.
That is, the favour of God.
29-u.
God will deliver his when the wicked are destroyed round about them, as in the flood and in Sodom.
30-x.
God will deliver a whole country from peril, even for the just man’s sake.