22 ¶ Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

² Can a man be profitable unto God? For he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

³ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art justified? Or is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?

⁴ Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?

⁵ ¶ Certainly thy wickedness is great and thine iniquities have no end.

⁶ For thou didst take a pledge from thy brother without cause and stripped the naked of their clothing.

⁷ Thou didst not give water to drink to the weary, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.

⁸ But the man of means had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

⁹ Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

¹⁰ Therefore, snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubles thee

¹¹ or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

¹² Is not God in the height of the heavens? Behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

¹³ And thou shalt say, What does God know? How can he judge through the darkness?

¹⁴ Thick clouds are his hiding place, and he does not see; and he walks in the circuit of heaven.

¹⁵ ¶ Dost thou desire to keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

¹⁶ Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.

¹⁷ Who said unto God, Depart from us; and what can the Almighty do unto us?

¹⁸ He had filled their houses with good things. Therefore, the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁹ The righteous shall see it and be glad; and the innocent laughs them to scorn.

²⁰ Whereas our substance was not cut down, when the fire had consumed the rest of them.

²¹ ¶ Make up thy friendship now with him, and thou shalt have peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.

²² Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

²³ If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tent;

²⁴ then thou shalt lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

²⁵ And the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

²⁶ For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

²⁷ Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

²⁸ Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

²⁹ When others are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

³⁰ He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and in the pureness of thine hands thou shalt be kept.