Eliphaz Counsels Seeking God

Job 5:8-16

"If I were you, I would seek God; I would make my plea to him.

For God does great deeds beyond investigation, wonders beyond all reckoning.

He gives rain to the earth, pours water down on the fields.

He raises the lowly on high and lifts mourners to safety.

He frustrates the schemes of the cunning, so that they achieve no success;

trapping the crafty in their own tricks and foiling quickly the plans of the false.

They meet with darkness during the day, groping at noon like at night.

But he saves the poor from the sword, their mouth, and from the clutches of the strong;

so the poor can hope again; and injustice shuts its mouth.