Job 11:13-20

The Voice

¹³     If you will focus your intentions in His direction
        and open your hands and reach for Him,
¹⁴     Where you have guilt on your hands,
        if you will send it far away and not tolerate sin in your tents,
¹⁵     Then you will lift up a face clean of all stains;
        you will hold your head high, secure, and free of fear.
¹⁶     You will forget all of these troubles of yours;
        they will pass beneath your memory like a drop of water that has just flowed away.
¹⁷     Life will become brighter than high noon;
        darkness will give way to morning.
¹⁸     Once again, you’ll trust in the presence of hope;
        you’ll scan the horizon and sleep safely.
¹⁹     You will lie down, and no one will terrorize you,
        and many will long to be in your good graces.
²⁰     But the eyes of the wicked will grow dark as they lose hope;
        they’ll find no escape, and in despair,
        they’ll long only to breathe their last dying breath.