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Job 22:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. "
Job 22:7
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5 Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Job 22:1
"Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,"
Job 22:2
"“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself."
Job 22:3
"Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?"
Job 22:4
"Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?"
Job 22:5
"Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities."
Job 22:6
"For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing."
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