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Scripture Context
Job 21:34 - Job 22:9
34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood.
Job 22
Intro: Eliphaz accuseth Job of sins and exhorteth him to repent.
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.