Job 22

¹Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

²Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

³What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?

⁴Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

⁵And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?

⁶For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

⁷Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

⁸In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.

⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

¹⁰Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

¹¹And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

¹²Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?

¹³And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

¹⁴The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.