Job 22:1-15

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^2 (B)“Can a man be profitable to God?
    Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
³ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
    or is it gain to him if you ^(C)make your ways blameless?
⁴ Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
    and ^(D)enters into judgment with you?
⁵ Is not your evil abundant?
    There is no end to your iniquities.
⁶ For you have ^(E)exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
    ^(F)and stripped the naked of their clothing.
⁷ You have given no water to the weary to drink,
    and you have ^(G)withheld bread from the hungry.
^8 (H)The man with power possessed the land,
    and ^(I)the favored man lived in it.
⁹ You have ^(J)sent widows away empty,
    and ^(K)the arms of ^(L)the fatherless were crushed.
¹⁰ Therefore ^(M)snares are all around you,
    and sudden terror overwhelms you,
¹¹ or ^(N)darkness, so that you cannot see,
    and a ^(O)flood of ^(P)water covers you.

¹² “Is not God high in the heavens?
    See ^(Q)the highest stars, how lofty they are!
¹³ But you say, ^(R)‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through ^(S)the deep darkness?
^14 (T)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?