New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 21
27 “Look, I know what you’re thinking. I know the schemes you plot against me.
28 You will tell me of rich and wicked people whose houses have vanished because of their sins.
29 But ask those who have been around, and they will tell you the truth.
30 Evil people are spared in times of calamity and are allowed to escape disaster.
31 No one criticizes them openly or pays them back for what they have done.
32 When they are carried to the grave, an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.
33 A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery. Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest, and the earth gives sweet repose.
34 “How can your empty clichés comfort me? All your explanations are lies!”
Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “Can a person do anything to help God? Can even a wise person be helpful to him?
3 Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous? Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect?
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