Job 22:12-20

English Standard Version

¹² “Is not God high in the heavens?
    See ^(A)the highest stars, how lofty they are!
¹³ But you say, ^(B)‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through ^(C)the deep darkness?
^14 (D)Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
    and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
¹⁵ Will you keep to the old way
    that wicked men have trod?
¹⁶ They were snatched away ^(E)before their time;
    their foundation was washed away.^[a]
17 They said to God, ^(F)‘Depart from us,’
    and ^(G)‘What can the Almighty do to us?’^[b]
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things—
    but ^(H)the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
^19 (I)The righteous see it and are glad;
    the innocent one ^(J)mocks at them,
²⁰ saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
    and what they left ^(K)the fire has consumed.’