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Job 22:3

Verse 3 of 30. The 22nd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.