Job 22:12-20

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹² “Isn’t God high above in the heavens?
Look how high the highest stars are!
¹³ You ask, ‘What does God know?
Can he judge ⌞anything⌟ from behind a dark cloud?
¹⁴ Thick clouds surround him so that he cannot see.
He walks above the clouds.’

¹⁵ “Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken?
¹⁶ They are snatched up before their time.
A river washes their foundation away.
¹⁷ They told God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do for us?’
¹⁸ Yet, he filled their homes with good things.
(The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.)
¹⁹ The righteous saw it and were glad,
and the innocent made fun of them by saying,
²⁰ ‘Indeed, their wealth has been wiped out,
and a fire has burned up what ⌞little⌟ they had left.’