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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.