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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 22
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 22,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-22:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.1",
        "text": "Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-22:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.2",
        "text": "Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-22:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.3",
        "text": "Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art       righteous? Or is it gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-22:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.4",
        "text": "Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproveth thee, That he entereth with thee into judgment?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-22:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.5",
        "text": "Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-22:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.6",
        "text": "For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-22:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.7",
        "text": "Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-22:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.8",
        "text": "But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-22:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.9",
        "text": "Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-22:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.10",
        "text": "Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-22:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.11",
        "text": "Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-22:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.12",
        "text": "Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-22:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.13",
        "text": "And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-22:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.14",
        "text": "Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-22:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.15",
        "text": "Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-22:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.16",
        "text": "Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-22:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.17",
        "text": "Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-22:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.18",
        "text": "Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-22:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.19",
        "text": "The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to scorn,"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-22:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.20",
        "text": "[Saying], Surely they that did rise up against us are       cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-22:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.21",
        "text": "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-22:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.22",
        "text": "Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-22:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.23",
        "text": "If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-22:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.24",
        "text": "And lay thou [thy] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the brooks;"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-22:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.25",
        "text": "And the Almighty will be thy treasure, And precious silver unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-22:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.26",
        "text": "For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, And shalt lift up thy face unto God."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-22:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.27",
        "text": "Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear       thee; And thou shalt pay thy vows."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-22:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.28",
        "text": "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be       established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-22:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.29",
        "text": "When they cast [thee] down, thou shalt say, [There is]       lifting up; And the humble person he will save."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-22:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.22.30",
        "text": "He will deliver [even] him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands."
      }
    ]
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