Job 22:12-20

Christian Standard Bible

¹² Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
¹³ Yet you say, “What does God know?
Can he judge through total darkness?^(A)
14 Clouds^(B) veil him so that he cannot see,
as he walks on the circle of the sky.”
¹⁵ Will you continue on the ancient path
that wicked men have walked?
¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time,
and their foundations^(C) were washed away by a river.
¹⁷ They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?” ^[a](D)
18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
¹⁹ The righteous see this and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,^(E)
20 “Surely our opponents are destroyed,
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”^(F)