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Does he reprove you because of your reverence
or enter into judgment with you?
Is not your wickedness great,
and there is no end to your iniquities?
“Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing,
and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked.
You have given no water for the weary to drink,
and you withheld food from the hungry.
And the land belongs to the man of power,[a]
and the favored[b] lives in it.
You have sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms of orphans were crushed.
10 Therefore trapping nets are all around you,
and panic suddenly terrifies you,
11 or it is so dark you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:8 Literally “man of power for him”
  2. Job 22:8 Literally “lifted up of face”

Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you
    and (A)enters into judgment with you?
Is not your evil abundant?
    There is no end to your iniquities.
For you have (B)exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
    (C)and stripped the naked of their clothing.
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
    and you have (D)withheld bread from the hungry.
(E)The man with power possessed the land,
    and (F)the favored man lived in it.
You have (G)sent widows away empty,
    and (H)the arms of (I)the fatherless were crushed.
10 Therefore (J)snares are all around you,
    and sudden terror overwhelms you,
11 or (K)darkness, so that you cannot see,
    and a (L)flood of (M)water covers you.

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