Job 22:12-20

Common English Bible

¹² Isn’t God in the heights of heaven;
    see how high the topmost stars are?
¹³ You say: “What does God know?
    Can he judge through thick clouds?
¹⁴     Clouds conceal him so he can’t see
        while he walks on heaven’s rim.”
¹⁵ Will you keep the ancient way
    traveled by sinful persons,
¹⁶     who were snatched prematurely
    when a river flooded their foundations,
¹⁷     who say to God, “Turn away from us;
            what can the Almighty do to us?”
¹⁸ Yet he filled their houses with good things;
    a sinner’s logic is beyond me.
¹⁹ The righteous see and rejoice;
    the innocent mock them:
²⁰     our enemies are certainly cut off;
    fire will devour what’s left of them.