Job 22:21-30

GOD’S WORD Translation

²¹ “Be in harmony and at peace with God.
In this way you will have prosperity.
²² Accept instruction from his mouth,
and keep his words in your heart.
²³ If you return to the Almighty, you will prosper.
If you put wrongdoing out of your tent,
²⁴ and lay your gold down in the dust,
and put your gold from Ophir among the pebbles in the rivers,
²⁵ then the Almighty will become your gold
and your large supply of silver.
²⁶ Then you will be happy with the Almighty
and look up toward God.
²⁷ You will pray to him, and he will listen to you,
and you will keep your vow to him.
²⁸ When you promise to do something, you will succeed,
and light will shine on your path.
²⁹ When others are discouraged, you will say, ‘Cheer up!’
Then he will save the humble person.^[a]
30 He will rescue one who is not innocent.
That person will be rescued by your purity.”