1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

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Luke 17:10, Luke 17:10, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8, Galatians 6:7

3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

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Malachi 2:17, Job 23:10, Job 23:12, Proverbs 11:20, Psalms 119:59

4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

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Job 14:3, Job 14:3, Psalms 143:2, Psalms 143:2, Revelation 3:19

5Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

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Psalms 40:12, Psalms 40:12, Job 11:6, Job 4:7, Job 4:11

6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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Exodus 22:26, Exodus 22:26, Ezekiel 18:16, Ezekiel 18:12, Ezekiel 18:16

7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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Job 31:17, Job 31:17, Isaiah 58:7, Matthew 25:42, Isaiah 58:7

8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

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Isaiah 9:15, Isaiah 9:15, Job 31:34, Job 13:8, Isaiah 3:3

9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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Job 24:3, Job 24:21, Job 24:3, Job 24:21, Ezekiel 22:7

10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

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Job 18:8, Job 18:10, Job 6:4, Job 13:21, Job 18:8

11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2, Lamentations 3:54, Psalms 69:1, Psalms 69:2

12"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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Job 11:8, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Job 11:8, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Psalms 115:16

13You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 8:12, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 73:11

14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

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Psalms 97:2, Psalms 139:11, Psalms 139:12, Psalms 97:2, Psalms 139:11

15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

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Luke 17:26, Luke 17:27, Luke 17:26, Luke 17:27, Genesis 6:5

16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

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Job 15:32, Job 15:32, Genesis 7:17, Genesis 7:24, Genesis 7:17

17who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

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Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Psalms 4:6

18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Job 21:16, Job 21:16, Job 12:6, Job 12:6, 1 Samuel 2:7

19The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

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Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 107:42, Psalms 52:6, Psalms 107:42

20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

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Job 1:16, Job 20:26, 2 Peter 2:6, 2 Peter 2:7, Job 1:16

21"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

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1 Chronicles 28:9, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Isaiah 27:5, Isaiah 27:5, Psalms 34:10

22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

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Job 23:12, Psalms 119:11, Job 23:12, Psalms 119:11, Deuteronomy 6:6

23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

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Job 11:13, Job 11:14, Zechariah 1:3, Job 11:13, Job 11:14

24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

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1 Kings 9:28, Isaiah 13:12, 1 Kings 9:28, Isaiah 13:12, Job 31:25

25The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

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Isaiah 33:6, Isaiah 33:6, Genesis 15:1, Genesis 15:1, Psalms 16:5

26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

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Psalms 37:4, Isaiah 58:14, Psalms 37:4, Isaiah 58:14, Job 27:10

27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

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Isaiah 58:9, Isaiah 58:9, Psalms 116:1, Psalms 116:1, 1 John 5:14

28You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

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Matthew 21:22, Matthew 21:22, Psalms 90:17, Psalms 90:17, Psalms 20:4

29When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

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James 4:6, James 4:6, Job 5:19, Job 5:27, Job 5:19

30He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

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Job 42:7, Job 42:8, Job 42:7, Job 42:8, James 5:15