Job describes his own life in 29:12-16. Eliphaz had described it very differently (22:5-9). What does the book say?

Job says it of himself: "because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him" (29:12), "I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy" (29:13), "I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame" (29:15), and "I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know" (29:16). Eliphaz had said to him, "Isn’t your wickedness great?" (22:5), "You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry" (22:7), and "You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken" (22:9). He names no one, no time and no place, and his grounds run from God's dealing with Job: "Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?" (22:4). Here are the book's other words on it, as they stand. Before any speech, the book says Job "was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil" (1:1), and the LORD says the like of him to Satan (1:8). After Job's words are ended (31:40), the book says, "So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes" (32:1). Job's words in 29:12-16 are his words about himself, as 22:5-9 are Eliphaz's words about him. What the book says of the friends' words is 42:7, and it doesn't say which words it means. These notes set the verses side by side and don't decide.