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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,² Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to 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 thy 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 withheld 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] around 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 hight of heaven? and behold the hight 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 Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!¹⁷ Who said to 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 deride them.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: by this good shall come to thee.²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.²³ If thou shalt 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 defense and thou shalt have plenty of silver.²⁶ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer to him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.²⁹ When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] exaltation; and he shall save the humble person.³⁰ He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands.