Job 22:4-11

Expanded Bible

⁴ Does God ·punish [reprimand; reprove] you for ·respecting him [^Lyour fear; ^Cin the sense of piety]?
    Does he ·bring you into court for this [^Lenter into judgment with you]?
⁵ No! It is because your evil is ·without limits [^Labundant]
    and your ·sins have [guilt has] no end.
⁶ You ·took your brothers’ things for a debt they didn’t owe [^Lexacted pledges from your brothers for no reason; Ex. 21:25–27];
    you took clothes from people and left them naked.
⁷ You did not give water to ·tired [weary] people,
    and you kept food from the ·hungry [famished; starving].
⁸ ·You were a powerful man who [^LThe powerful] owned land;
    ·you were honored and [^Lthe favored] lived in the land.
⁹ But you sent widows away empty-handed,
    and you ·mistreated [^Lcrushed the arms/strength of the] orphans.
¹⁰ That is why traps are all around you
    and sudden danger frightens you.
¹¹ That is why it is so dark you cannot see
    and a flood of water covers you.