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Is it because of your piety that he reproves you—
    that he enters into judgment with you?
Is not your wickedness great,
    your iniquity endless?
You keep your relatives’ goods in pledge unjustly,[a]
    leave them stripped naked of their clothing.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22:6–9 This criticism of Job by Eliphaz is untrue (cf. 31:19), but he is driven to it by his belief that God always acts justly, even when he causes someone to suffer; suffering is due to wrongdoing (cf. v. 29).