Verse 7
Job 22:7
World English Bible
7
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לֹא מַ֭יִם עָיֵ֣ף תַּשְׁקֶ֑ה וּ֝/מֵ/רָעֵ֗ב תִּֽמְנַֽע לָֽחֶם
English Translation
Do not water the weary, and do not withhold bread from the hungry.
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Chapter 22 Context
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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“Can a man be profitable to God (Elohim)?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous?
Or does it benefit him, that you make yo...
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Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
that he enters with you into judgment?
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Isn’t your wickedness great?
Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
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For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
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But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.
The honorable man, he lived in it.
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You have sent widows away empty,
and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Therefore snares are around you.
Sudden fear troubles you,
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or darkness, so that you can not see,
and floods of waters cover you.
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“Isn’t God (Elohim) in the heights of heaven?
See the height of the stars, how high they are!
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You say, ‘What does God (Elohim) know?
Can he judge through the thick darkness?
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Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.
He walks on the vault of the sky.’
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Will you keep the old way,
which wicked men have trodden,
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who were snatched away before their time,
whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
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who said to God (Elohim), ‘Depart from us;’
and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
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Yet he filled their houses with good things,
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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The righteous see it, and are glad.
The innocent ridicule them,
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saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.
The fire has consumed their remnant.’
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“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace.
Thereby good shall come to you.
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Please receive instruction from his mouth,
and lay up his words in your heart.
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If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up,
if you put away unrighteousness far from your...
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Lay your treasure in the dust,
the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
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The Almighty will be your treasure,
and precious silver to you.
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For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,
and shall lift up your face to God (Elohim).
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You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.
You shall pay your vows.
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You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you.
Light shall shine on your ways.
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When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’
He will save the humble person.
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He will even deliver him who is not innocent.
Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of yo...
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