Job 22:1-14 ▼

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 “Can a man be useful to God? Can even a wise one benefit Him?

3 Is it pleasure to Shaddai that you are righteous, or gain that you perfect your ways?

4 For your fear does He rebuke you and enter against you into judgment?

5 Is not your evil great, and your iniquity without end?

6 For you take a pledge from your brothers needlessly, and the garments the naked you strip off.

7 You have not quenched with water the weary, and from the hungry you have withheld bread.

8 But the man of arm, unto him is the land, and the uplifted of face, he dwells in it!

9 You have sent away widows in emptiness, and the arms of the fatherless are crushed.

10 Upon thus there are snares all around you, and dread suddenly terrifies you,

11 or darkness you cannot see, and an abundance of waters covers you.

12 Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold, the head of the stars, how exalted they are!

13 And you say, ‘What does God know? How can He judge through the dark cloud?

14 Clouds are a covering for Him, so that He does not see, and the vault of the heavens He walks about.’