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12 “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
    See the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 You say, ‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.
    He walks on the vault of the sky.’
15 Will you keep the old way,
    which wicked men have trodden,
16 who were snatched away before their time,
    whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
17 who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’
    and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
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.
    The innocent ridicule them,
20 saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.
    The fire has consumed their remnant.’

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12 Is not God in the height of heaven?
And behold the [a]height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And thou sayest, What doth God know?
Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not;
And he walketh on the vault of heaven.
15 [b]Wilt thou keep the old way
Which wicked men have trodden?
16 Who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
17 Who said unto God, Depart from us;
And, What can the Almighty do [c]for [d]us?
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 Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off,
And [e]the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:12 Hebrew head.
  2. Job 22:15 Or, Dost thou mark
  3. Job 22:17 Or, to
  4. Job 22:17 Hebrew them.
  5. Job 22:20 Or, that which remained to them. Or, their abundance