Job 22:4-20
English Standard Version
4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
and (A)enters into judgment with you?
5 Is not your evil abundant?
There is no end to your iniquities.
6 For you have (B)exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
(C)and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have (D)withheld bread from the hungry.
8 (E)The man with power possessed the land,
and (F)the favored man lived in it.
9 You have (G)sent widows away empty,
and (H)the arms of (I)the fatherless were crushed.
10 Therefore (J)snares are all around you,
and sudden terror overwhelms you,
11 or (K)darkness, so that you cannot see,
and a (L)flood of (M)water covers you.
12 “Is not God high in the heavens?
See (N)the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13 But you say, (O)‘What does God know?
Can he judge through (P)the deep darkness?
14 (Q)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 (R)before their time;
their foundation was washed away.[a]
17 They said to God, (S)‘Depart from us,’
and (T)‘What can the Almighty do to us?’[b]
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things—
but (U)the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 (V)The righteous see it and are glad;
the innocent one (W)mocks at them,
20 saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
and what they left (X)the fire has consumed.’
Job 42:7
English Standard Version
The Lord Rebukes Job's Friends
7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz (A)the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
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