Job 22:12-20

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹² Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
¹³ Yet you say: “What does God know?
Can He judge through thick darkness?^(A)
14 Clouds^(B) veil Him so that He cannot see,
as He walks on the circle of the sky.”
¹⁵ Will you continue on the ancient path
that wicked men have walked?
¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time,
and their foundations^(C) were washed away by a river.
¹⁷ They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”^[a](D)
18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
¹⁹ The righteous see this and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,^(E)
20 “Surely our opponents are destroyed,
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”^(F)