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1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2 - "Can a man be profitable to God?Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

3 - Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous?Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

4 - Is it for your piety that he reproves you,that he enters with you into judgment?

5 - Isn't your wickedness great?Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

6 - For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7 - You haven't given water to the weary to drink,and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8 - But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.The honorable man, he lived in it.

9 - You have sent widows away empty,and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

10 - Therefore snares are around you.Sudden fear troubles you,

11 - or darkness, so that you can not see,and floods of waters cover you.

12 - "Isn't God in the heights of heaven?See the height of the stars, how high they are!

13 - You say, 'What does God know?Can he judge through the thick darkness?

14 - Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see.He walks on the vault of the sky.'

15 - Will you keep the old way,which wicked men have trodden,

16 - who were snatched away before their time,whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

17 - who said to God, 'Depart from us;'and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

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.The innocent ridicule them,

20 - saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.The fire has consumed their remnant.'

21 - "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace.Thereby good shall come to you.

22 - Please receive instruction from his mouth,and lay up his words in your heart.

23 - If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up,if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

24 - Lay your treasure in the dust,the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

25 - The Almighty will be your treasure,and precious silver to you.

26 - For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,and shall lift up your face to God.

27 - You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.You shall pay your vows.

28 - You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you.Light shall shine on your ways.

29 - When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.'He will save the humble person.

30 - He will even deliver him who is not innocent.Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

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