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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 piety that he rebukes you
    and brings charges against you?(A)
Is not your wickedness great?
    Are not your sins(B) endless?(C)
You demanded security(D) from your relatives for no reason;(E)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(F)
You gave no water(G) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,(H)
though you were a powerful man, owning land(I)
    an honored man,(J) living on it.(K)
And you sent widows(L) away empty-handed(M)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(N)
10 That is why snares(O) are all around you,(P)
    why sudden peril terrifies you,(Q)
11 why it is so dark(R) you cannot see,
    and why a flood of water covers you.(S)

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