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of service to him?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Is it any pleasure to the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15463a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> if you are righteous,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Is it for your piety that he reproves you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and enters into judgment with you?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Is not your wickedness great?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">There is no end to your iniquities.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and stripped the naked of their clothing.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>You have given no water to the weary to drink,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you have withheld bread from the hungry.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The powerful possess the land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the favored live in it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>You have sent widows away empty-handed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15469b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Therefore snares are around you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and sudden terror overwhelms you,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>or darkness so that you cannot see;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a flood of water covers you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“Is not God high in the heavens?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">See the highest stars, how lofty they are!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Therefore you say, ‘What does God know?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Can he judge through the deep darkness?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he walks on the dome of heaven.’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Will you keep to the old way</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that the wicked have trod?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>They were snatched away before their time;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">their foundation was washed away by a flood.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and ‘What can the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15477c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> do to us?’<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15477d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Yet he filled their houses with good things—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The righteous see it and are glad;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the innocent laugh them to scorn,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and what they left, the fire has consumed.’</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>“Agree with God,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15481e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and be at peace;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in this way good will come to you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Receive instruction from his mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and lay up his words in your heart.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>If you return to the Almighty,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15483f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> you will be restored,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>if you treat gold like dust,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent-bed,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>and if the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15485g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> is your gold</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and your precious silver,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15486h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and lift up your face to God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>You will pray to him, and he will hear you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and you will pay your vows.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and light will shine on your ways.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>When others are humiliated, you say it is pride;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for he saves the humble.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>He will deliver even those who are guilty;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they will escape because of the cleanness of your hands.”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15490i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:3">Job 22:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:9">Job 22:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb <i>were crushed</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:17">Job 22:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:17">Job 22:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>them</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:21">Job 22:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:23">Job 22:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:25">Job 22:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:26">Job 22:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 22:30">Job 22:30</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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