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Eliphaz’s Third Response to Job
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
“Can a person do anything to help God?
Can even a wise person be helpful to him?
Can even a wise person be helpful to him?
“Can a man be profitable to God?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Is it any advantage to the Almighty if you are righteous?
Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect?
Would it be any gain to him if you were perfect?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Is it because you’re so pious that he accuses you
and brings judgment against you?
and brings judgment against you?
Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
and enters into judgment with you?
and enters into judgment with you?
No, it’s because of your wickedness!
There’s no limit to your sins.
There’s no limit to your sins.
Is not your evil abundant?
There is no end to your iniquities.
There is no end to your iniquities.
“For example, you must have lent money to your friend
and demanded clothing as security.
Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
and demanded clothing as security.
Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
You must have refused water for the thirsty
and food for the hungry.
and food for the hungry.
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
You probably think the land belongs to the powerful
and only the privileged have a right to it!
and only the privileged have a right to it!
The man with power possessed the land,
and the favored man lived in it.
and the favored man lived in it.
You must have sent widows away empty-handed
and crushed the hopes of orphans.
and crushed the hopes of orphans.
You have sent widows away empty,
and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
That is why you are surrounded by traps
and tremble from sudden fears.
and tremble from sudden fears.
Therefore snares are all around you,
and sudden terror overwhelms you,
and sudden terror overwhelms you,
That is why you cannot see in the darkness,
and waves of water cover you.
and waves of water cover you.
or darkness, so that you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.
and a flood of water covers you.
“God is so great — higher than the heavens,
higher than the farthest stars.
higher than the farthest stars.
“Is not God high in the heavens?
See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing!
How can he judge through the thick darkness?
How can he judge through the thick darkness?
But you say, ‘What does God know?
Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Can he judge through the deep darkness?
For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us.
He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’
He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’
Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
“Will you continue on the old paths
where evil people have walked?
where evil people have walked?
Will you keep to the old way
that wicked men have trod?
that wicked men have trod?
They were snatched away in the prime of life,
the foundations of their lives washed away.
the foundations of their lives washed away.
For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do to us?’
What can the Almighty do to us?’
Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things,
so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.
so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.
Yet he filled their houses with good things —
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
“The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed,
and the innocent will laugh in contempt.
and the innocent will laugh in contempt.
The righteous see it and are glad;
the innocent one mocks at them,
the innocent one mocks at them,
They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed.
The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
and what they left the fire has consumed.’
and what they left the fire has consumed.’
“Submit to God, and you will have peace;
then things will go well for you.
then things will go well for you.
“Agree with God, and be at peace;
thereby good will come to you.
thereby good will come to you.
Listen to his instructions,
and store them in your heart.
and store them in your heart.
Receive instruction from his mouth,
and lay up his words in your heart.
and lay up his words in your heart.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored —
so clean up your life.
so clean up your life.
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up;
if you remove injustice far from your tents,
if you remove injustice far from your tents,
If you give up your lust for money
and throw your precious gold into the river,
and throw your precious gold into the river,
if you lay gold in the dust,
and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
the Almighty himself will be your treasure.
He will be your precious silver!
He will be your precious silver!
then the Almighty will be your gold
and your precious silver.
and your precious silver.
“Then you will take delight in the Almighty
and look up to God.
and look up to God.
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty
and lift up your face to God.
and lift up your face to God.
You will pray to him, and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows to him.
and you will fulfill your vows to him.
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,
and you will pay your vows.
and you will pay your vows.
You will succeed in whatever you choose to do,
and light will shine on the road ahead of you.
and light will shine on the road ahead of you.
You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,
and light will shine on your ways.
and light will shine on your ways.
If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’
God will save them.
God will save them.