1. Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2. Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
3. What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
4. Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
5. And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
6. For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7. Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
8. In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
9. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
10. Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
11. And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
12. Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
13. And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.