1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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 if you are in the right,or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
4. Is it for your fear of him that he reproves youand enters into judgment with you?
5. Is not your evil abundant?There is no end to your iniquities.
6. For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7. You have given no water to the weary to drink,and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8. The man with power possessed the land,and the favored man lived in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty,and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
10. Therefore snares are all around you,and sudden terror overwhelms you,