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Job 22
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.
while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
You have sent widows away empty,
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Therefore snares are around you.
Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
or darkness, so that you can not see,
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
You say, ‘What does God know?
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.
Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven (note: Or heaven’s horizon or the circle of the sky).’
who were snatched away before their time,
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Yet he filled their houses with good things,
But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
The righteous see it, and are glad.
The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:
saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.
‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace.
Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
Please receive instruction from his mouth,
Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up,
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
Lay your treasure in the dust,
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
The Almighty will be your treasure,
then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,
Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.
You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you.
Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’
When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
He will even deliver him who is not innocent.
He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”