Verse 3
Job 22:3
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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What doth it profit God (Elohim) if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ/חֵ֣פֶץ לְ֭/שַׁדַּי כִּ֣י תִצְדָּ֑ק וְ/אִם בֶּ֝֗צַע כִּֽי תַתֵּ֥ם דְּרָכֶֽי/ךָ
English Translation
The desire of the Almighty is that you be righteous, and if by gain you will cease your ways.
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Chapter 22 Context
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Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
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Can man be compared with God (Elohim), even though he were of perfect knowledge?
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What doth it profit God (Elohim) if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted...
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Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
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And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
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For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their c...
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Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
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In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
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Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
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And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with...
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Dost not thou think that God (Elohim) is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the...
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And thou sayst: What doth God (Elohim) know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
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The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of he...
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Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
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Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
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Who said to God (Elohim): Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
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Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
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The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
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Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
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Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
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Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
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If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from th...
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He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
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And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
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Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God (Elohim).
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Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
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Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
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For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be s...
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The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.
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