Eliphaz’s Third Speech

22 Then[fn] Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

• 2 Yes, can the wise be of use to him?
• 3 Is it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or[fn] a gain if you make your ways blameless?
• 4  or enter into judgment with you?
• 5 Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?
• 6  and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked.
• 7 for the weary to drink, and you withheld food from the hungry.
• 8 [fn] and[fn] lives in it.
• 9  and the arms of orphans were crushed.
• 10 are all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you,
• 11 it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
• 12 Is not God in the height of the heavens? But[fn] see how lofty are[fn]
• 13  Can he judge through deep gloom?
• 14 are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.’
• 15 to the way of old that the people of mischief have trod,
• 16 [fn] whose foundation was washed away by a current?
• 17 Those who said to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can Shaddai do to us?’
• 18 [fn] he himself[fn] filled up their houses with good things, but[fn] the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me.
• 19 The righteous see, and they rejoice, but[fn] the innocent one mocks at them.
• 20 [fn] our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.[fn]
• 21  and be at peace;[fn] good will come to you.
• 22  and place his words in your heart.
• 23  if you remove wickedness from your tent,
• 24 if you put gold ore in the dust, and the gold of Ophir in the rock of wadis,
• 25 [fn] Shaddai will be your gold ore and[fn]
• 26  and[fn]
• 27  and you will pay your vows.
• 28  and light will shine on your ways.
• 29 [fn] ‘ It is pride,’ for[fn] he saves[fn]
• 30  and he will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.”