1. THEN ELIPHAZ the Temanite answered [Job],
2. Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he that is wise is profitable to himself. [Ps. 16:2; Luke 17:10.]
3. Is it any pleasure or advantage to the Almighty that you are righteous (upright and in right standing with Him)? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways perfect? [Isa. 62:3; Zech. 2:8; Mal. 3:17; Acts 20:28.]
4. Is it for your [reverential] fear of Him that He [thus] reproves you, that He enters with you into judgment?
5. Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.
6. For you have taken pledges of your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7. You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. [Matt. 25:42.]
8. But [you, Job] the man with power possessed the land, and the favored and accepted man dwelt in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10. Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles and overwhelms you;
11. Your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.