Job 22:12-20

21st Century King James Version

¹² “Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

¹³ And thou sayest, ‘How doth God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?

¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He seeth not; and He walketh in the circuit of heaven.’

¹⁵ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

¹⁶ who were cut down before their time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood,

¹⁷ who said unto God, ‘Depart from us. And what can the Almighty do to them?’

¹⁸ Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁹ The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn;

²⁰ whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.