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Is it for your piety that he reproves you
    and enters into judgment with you?(A)
Is not your wickedness great?
    There is no end to your iniquities.(B)
For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason
    and stripped the naked of their clothing.(C)
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
    and you have withheld bread from the hungry.(D)
The powerful possess the land,
    and the favored live in it.
You have sent widows away empty-handed,
    and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.[a](E)
10 Therefore snares are around you,
    and sudden terror overwhelms you,
11 or darkness so that you cannot see;
    a flood of water covers you.(F)

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  1. 22.9 Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb were crushed

Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you,
    and enters into judgment with you?
Is not your wickedness great?
    There is no end to your iniquities.
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing,
    and stripped the naked of their clothing.
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
    and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
The man with power possessed the land,
    and the favored man dwelt in it.
You have sent widows away empty,
    and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
10 Therefore snares are round about you,
    and sudden terror overwhelms you;
11 your light is darkened, so that[a] you cannot see,
    and a flood of water covers you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:11 Cn Compare Gk: Heb or darkness