Job:21:27: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job:21:28: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job:21:29: Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Job:21:30: That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job:21:31: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Job:21:32: Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job:21:33: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Job:21:34: How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Chapter 22

Job:22:1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job:22:2: Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Job:22:3: Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job:22:4: Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
Job:22:5: Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job:22:6: For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job:22:7: Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Job:22:8: But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job:22:9: Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job:22:10: Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Job:22:11: Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job:22:12: Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job:22:13: And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job:22:14: Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Job:22:15: Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job:22:16: Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Job:22:17: Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job:22:18: Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job:22:19: The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job:22:20: Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
Job:22:21: Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job:22:22: Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Job:22:23: If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
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