Job 22, side by side
Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
11Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
29When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
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