- 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
- 2. May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
- 3. Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
- 4. Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
- 5. Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
- 6. For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
- 7. To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
- 8. But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
- 9. Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.
- 10. Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:
- 11. Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee.
- 12. Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
- 13. But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
- 14. The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
- 15. Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
- 16. Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
- 17. Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them.
- 18. Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
- 19. The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne.
- 20. Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
- 21. Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
- 22. Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
- 23. If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
- 24. Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
- 25. Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
- 26. And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
- 27. Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes.
- 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shal establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
- 29. When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
- 30. The innocent shal deliuer the yland, & it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
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