Job 22:4-11

The Voice

⁴    Do you really think He takes you to task because you revere Him too much?
        Is this why He brings allegations against you?
⁵    Is it not possible that you are, in fact, great with wickedness
        and endless in your wrongdoing?

⁶    When your relatives came to you needing money,
        for no good reason you took their clothes for collateral
        and left them naked.
⁷    You have never given so much as a cup of water to the thirsty
        or a crumb to the hungry.
⁸    You must think only the powerful and privileged possess the land
        and can live in it any way they wish.
⁹    You have sent away widows who were wanting,
        and you have obliterated the only support of orphans.
¹⁰    This is why you are surrounded by snares,
        why you are overcome with dreadful fears,
¹¹    Why you’re in the dark, without a glimmer to help you see,
        sunk beneath the rush of flooding water.