Job

¹ Once again Eliphaz the Temanite took up his theme:

² or smart enough to give him advice?

³ Even if you gave a perfect performance, do you think he'd applaud?

⁴ that he's disciplining you, putting you on the spot?

⁵ because there's no end to your sins.

⁶ you took the shirts off their backs, exploited their helplessness.

⁷ or food, not even a scrap, to the hungry.

⁸ surrounded by immense wealth!

⁹ heartless, you crushed orphans.

¹⁰ Suddenly the tables have turned!

¹¹ up to your neck in flood waters?

¹² He runs the universe—just look at the stars!

¹³ From that distance and darkness, how can he judge?

¹⁴ so how can he see us?'

¹⁵ that wicked men and women have always used?

¹⁶ flash floods sweeping them off to their doom.

¹⁷ What good is God Almighty to us?'

¹⁸ It's beyond me how they can carry on like this!

¹⁹ Relieved, they crow,

²⁰ Everything they had and stood for is up in smoke!'

²¹ and everything will turn out just fine.

²² take his words to heart.

²³ and he'll rebuild your life. Clean house of everything evil.

²⁴ and abandon your gold-plated luxury.

²⁵ more wealth than you can imagine.

²⁶ and look to him joyfully, boldly.

²⁷ he'll help you do what you've promised.

²⁸ your life will be bathed in light.

²⁹ and God will save them.

³⁰ escape through God's grace in your life."