---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 22
verse_count: 30
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 22, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 22

*Eliphaz accuseth Job of sins, and exhorteth him to repent.*

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