1. Eliphaz from Teman said:
2. What use are we humansto God,even the wisest of us?
3. If you were completely sinless,that would still mean nothingto God All-Powerful.
4. Is he correcting youfor worshipping him?
5. No! It's becauseof your terrible sins.
6. To guarantee payment of a debt,you have taken clothesfrom the poor.
7. And you refused bread and waterto the hungry and thirsty,
8. although you were rich,respected, and powerful.
9. You have turned away widowsand have broken the armsof orphans.
10. That's why you were suddenlytrapped by terror,
11. blinded by darkness,and drowned in a flood.
12. God lives in the heavensabove the highest stars,where he sees everything.
13. Do you think the deep darknesshides you from God?
14. Do thick clouds cover his eyes,as he walks around heaven's domehigh above the earth?
15. Give up those ancient ideasbelieved by sinners,