1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2. Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways blameless?
4. Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?
5. Is not your wickedness great? and your iniquities without end?
6. For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7. You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
9. You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.