1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, 2"Can a man be profitable to God? 3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? 4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, 5Isn't your wickedness great? 6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, 7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, 8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. 9You have sent widows away empty, 10Therefore snares are around you. 11or darkness, so that you can not see, 12"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? 13You say, 'What does God know? 14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. 15Will you keep the old way, 16who were snatched away before their time, 17who said to God, 'Depart from us;' 18Yet he filled their houses with good things, 19The righteous see it, and are glad. 20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. 21"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. 22Please receive instruction from his mouth, 23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, 24Lay your treasure in the dust, 25The Almighty will be your treasure, 26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, 27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. 28You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. 29When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' 30He will even deliver him who is not innocent.