Job 22:1-14 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

3 Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

4 Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

7 You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

10 Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

11 it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

12 Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’