If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; [if] you remove wickedness from your tent,

and [if you] put gold ore in [the] dust, and [the] gold of Ophir in [the] rock of wadis,

Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and {you will expect that God will be good to you}.

He will deliver the guilty, and he will escape because of the cleanness of your hands."

then Shaddai will be your gold ore and {your precious silver}.

And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

When they are humiliated, {you say}, '[It is] pride,' for he saves {the humble}.

"Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; {in this way}, good will come to you.

"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can [the] wise be of use to him?

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

"[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}.

Will you keep [to the] way of old that [the] people of mischief have trod,

"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked.

[Is] not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.

And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

Therefore trapping nets [are] all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you,

who were snatched away {before their time}, whose foundation was washed away [by] a current?

[Those] who said to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can Shaddai do to us?'

[Is] it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless?

You have given no water [for the] weary to drink, and you withheld food from [the] hungry.

Does he reprove you because of your reverence [or] enter into judgment with you?

[The] righteous see, and they rejoice, but [the] innocent [one] mocks at them.

And the land {belongs to the man of power}, and {the favored} lives in it.

or [it is so] dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Yet he himself filled up their houses [with] good [things], but [the] schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

{Surely} our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.