Job 22:1-11

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

4Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?

5Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

6For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.

9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,

11or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.