1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2. “Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can the wise be of use to him?
3. Is it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless?
4. Does he reprove you because of your reverence or enter into judgment with you?
5. Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?
6. “Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked.
7. You have given no water for the weary to drink, and you withheld food from the hungry.
8. And the land belongs to the man of power, and the favored lives in it.