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Job, Chapters 22-31

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Chapter interpretations

22:0

22:1

см.:Иов.4:1;Иов.15:1;

22:2

22:3

см.:Иов.35:7;

22:4

22:5

22:6

см.:Иез.18:7;Ис.58:7;

22:7

см.:Мф.25:42;

22:8

22:9

22:10

см.:2Цар.22:6;

22:11

см.:2Цар.22:17;

22:12

22:13

см.:Иов.24:15;Пс.93:7;Ис.29:15;

22:14

22:15

см.:1Пет.4:2;

22:16

см.:Иов.15:32;

22:17

22:18

см.:Иов.21:16;

22:19

см.:Пс.106:42;

22:20

см.:Иез.28:18;

22:21

22:22

22:23

см.:Иов.8:5-6;

22:24

22:25

22:26

22:27

см.:Пс.49:15;Ис.58:9;Ис.65:24;

22:28

22:29

см.:Притч.29:23;Лк.18:14;

22:30

см.:Пс.17:21;

Chapter 31

31:1

см.:Быт.34:1-2;Сир.9:5;Мф.5:28;

31:2

31:3

31:4

см.:Иов.23:10;Иов.34:21;Пс.138:3;

31:5

31:6

31:7

см.:Пс.7:4;

31:8

см.:Лев.26:16;Втор.28:30:38;

31:9

см.:Иов.24:15;

31:10

см.:Втор.28:30;

31:11

см.:Быт.38:24;Лев.20:10;

31:12

см.:Ис.47:14;

31:13

см.:Еф.6:9;Кол.4:1;

31:14

31:15

31:16

см.:1Ин.3:17;Иак.2:15-16;

31:17

см.:Лк.14:13;

31:18

см.:Иов.29:16;Сир.4:10;

см.:Ис.58:7;

см.:Втор.24:13;

см.:Ис.58:4;

см.:Зах.11:17;

см.:Быт.50:19;

см.:Пс.61:11;Мк.10:24;

31:25

31:26

см.:Втор.4:19;Иез.8:16;

31:27

см.:3Цар.19:18;

31:28

см.:Тит.1:16;

31:29

см.:Притч.24:17;

31:30

31:31

31:32

см.:Быт.19:2;Рим.12:13;Евр.13:2;

31:33

см.:Быт.3:8;Ос.6:7;

31:34

31:35

31:36

31:37

31:38

31:39

см.:Иак.5:11;

31:40

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Eliphaz Speaks: Job's Wickedness Is Great

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

“Can a mortal be of use to God? Can even the wisest be of service to him?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

The powerful possess the land, and the favored live in it.

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

Therefore snares are around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,

or darkness so that you cannot see; a flood of water covers you.

“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of heaven.’

Will you keep to the old way that the wicked have trod?

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,

saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left, the fire has consumed.’

“Agree with God, and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.

Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,

if you treat gold like dust, and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent-bed,

and if the Almighty is your gold and your precious silver,

then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

When others are humiliated, you say it is pride; for he saves the humble.

He will deliver even those who are guilty; they will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.”

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit—

let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!—

if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands;

then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

For that would be a heinous crime; that would be a criminal offense;

for that would be a fire consuming down to Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my harvest.

“If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me;

what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it—

for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow —

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or a poor person without covering,

whose loins have not blessed me, and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

“If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence;

if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;

if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of those who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook them—

I have not let my mouth sin by asking for their lives with a curse—

if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’ —

the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler—

if I have concealed my transgressions as others do, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—

Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown;

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

“If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together;

if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;

let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.