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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,² May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?³ Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?⁴ Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?

⁵ Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?⁶ For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.⁷ To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.⁸ But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.⁹ Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.¹⁰ Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:¹¹ Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee.¹² Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.¹³ But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?¹⁴ The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

¹⁵ Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?¹⁶ Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:¹⁷ Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.¹⁸ Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.¹⁹ The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne.²⁰ Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.

²¹ Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.²² Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.²³ If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.²⁴ Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.²⁵ Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.²⁶ And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.²⁷ Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes.²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shal establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.²⁹ When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.³⁰ The innocent shal deliuer the yland, & it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.