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# Job 22

Job 22 is chapter 22 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 30 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Eliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity if he will repent.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 22 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Eliphaz the Themanite responded by saying:
2. Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?
3. What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?
4. Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,
5. and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?
6. For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.
7. You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.
8. By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.
9. You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.
10. Because of this, you are surrounded by traps, and unexpected fears will disturb you.
11. And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the onrush of overflowing waters?
12. Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?
13. And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”
14. and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens.”
15. Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
16. These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
17. They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,
18. though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.
19. The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.
20. Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?
21. So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.
22. Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.
23. If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.
24. He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.
25. And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.
26. Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.
27. You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.
28. You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.
29. For he who had been humbled, will be in glory; and he who will lower his eyes, will be the one saved.
30. The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.

## Job 22 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:
2. Numquid Deo potest comparari homo, etiam cum perfectæ fuerit scientiæ?
3. Quid prodest Deo, si justus fueris? aut quid ei confers, si immaculata fuerit via tua?
4. Numquid timens arguet te, et veniet tecum in judicium,
5. et non propter malitiam tuam plurimam, et infinitas iniquitates tuas?
6. Abstulisti enim pignus fratrum tuorum sine causa, et nudos spoliasti vestibus.
7. Aquam lasso non dedisti, et esurienti subtraxisti panem.
8. In fortitudine brachii tui possidebas terram, et potentissimus obtinebas eam.
9. Viduas dimisisti vacuas, et lacertos pupillorum comminuisti.
10. Propterea circumdatus es laqueis, et conturbat te formido subita.
11. Et putabas te tenebras non visurum, et impetu aquarum inundantium non oppressum iri?
12. an non cogitas quod Deus excelsior cælo sit, et super stellarum verticem sublimetur?
13. Et dicis: Quid enim novit Deus? et quasi per caliginem judicat.
14. Nubes latibulum ejus, nec nostra considerat, et circa cardines cæli perambulat.
15. Numquid semitam sæculorum custodire cupis, quam calcaverunt viri iniqui,
16. qui sublati sunt ante tempus suum, et fluvius subvertit fundamentum eorum?
17. Qui dicebant Deo: Recede a nobis: et quasi nihil posset facere Omnipotens, æstimabant eum,
18. cum ille implesset domos eorum bonis: quorum sententia procul sit a me.
19. Videbunt justi, et lætabuntur, et innocens subsannabit eos:
20. nonne succisa est erectio eorum? et reliquias eorum devoravit ignis?
21. Acquiesce igitur ei, et habeto pacem, et per hæc habebis fructus optimos.
22. Suscipe ex ore illius legem, et pone sermones ejus in corde tuo.
23. Si reversus fueris ad Omnipotentem, ædificaberis, et longe facies iniquitatem a tabernaculo tuo.
24. Dabit pro terra silicem, et pro silice torrentes aureos.
25. Eritque Omnipotens contra hostes tuos, et argentum coacervabitur tibi.
26. Tunc super Omnipotentem deliciis afflues, et elevabis ad Deum faciem tuam.
27. Rogabis eum, et exaudiet te, et vota tua reddes.
28. Decernes rem, et veniet tibi, et in viis tuis splendebit lumen.
29. Qui enim humiliatus fuerit, erit in gloria, et qui inclinaverit oculos, ipse salvabitur.
30. Salvabitur innocens: salvabitur autem in munditia manuum suarum.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).