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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Is it for your piety that he rebukes you and brings charges against you? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You gave no water to the weary and you withheld food from the hungry, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8though you were a powerful man, owning land-- an honored man, living on it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Yet you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17They said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.' |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Accept 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 restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29When people are brought low and you say, 'Lift them up!' then he will save the downcast. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." |
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