Eliphaz Speaks
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Isn’t your wickedness abundant
and aren’t your iniquities endless?
6 and aren’t your iniquities endless?
For you took collateral(C) from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
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8 stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.
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11 and an influential man lived on it.
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Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
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15 And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
Will you continue on the ancient path
that wicked men have walked?
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18 that wicked men have walked?
But it was He who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
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20 The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
Footnotes:
a.
Job 22:9: LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read you have
b.
Job 22:17: LXX, Syr; MT reads him
c.
Job 22:21: Lit peace; by them
d.
Job 22:28: Lit out for you
e.
Job 22:29: Lit bowed of eyes