✧Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ✧2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto 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? ✧4Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? ✧5[Is] not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? ✧6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ✧7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. ✧8But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. ✧9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. ✧10Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; ✧11Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. ✧12[Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! ✧13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? ✧14Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. ✧15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? ✧16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: ✧17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? ✧18Yet he filled their houses with good [things:] but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ✧19The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. ✧20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. ✧21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. ✧22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. ✧23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. ✧24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. ✧25Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. ✧26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. ✧27Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. ✧28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. ✧29When [men] are cast down, then thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. ✧30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.