(Verse 3) — What does it profit God if you are righteous? Or what do you confer on Him if your life is spotless? 2. God does not need our righteousness. — For in everything that we do well, we help ourselves, not God. Whence also it is said through the Psalmist: I said to the Lord: You are my God, for You have no need of my goods (Psalm 15:2). For He is truly Lord to us, because He is also assuredly God, who has no need of the good of a servant, but confers the goodness which He receives, so that the goodness offered profits not Himself, but those who first receive and afterward render it back. For although the Lord, coming to judgment, says: As long as you did it to one of these least of my brethren, you did it to me (Matthew...
25:40), He speaks this with wondrous tenderness out of compassion for His members. And He Himself helps us through the fact that He is our Head, He who through our good works is helped in His members. Eliphaz further adds what no one is ignorant of, saying: