Job 22   English Standard Version (ESV) Eliphaz Speaks: Job's Wickedness Is Great 22  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 2  “Can a man be profitable to God?      Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,      or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? 4  Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you      and enters into judgment with you? 5  Is not your evil abundant?      There is no end to your iniquities. 6  For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing      and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7  You have given no water to the weary to drink,      and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8  The man with power possessed the land,      and the favored man lived in it. 9  You have sent widows away empty,      and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. 10  Therefore snares are all around you,      and sudden terror overwhelms you, 11  or dar