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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Is 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’ |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’ |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” |
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