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Can he judge through the thick darkness?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that men cannot see him; and he walks upon the circle of the heaven.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Have you marked well the old way which wicked men have trodden long ago?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Those who were cut down before their time, who were stopped at the crossing place of the river of life, and then did not remember who had laid down their pattern of living,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Who said to God, Depart from us; what can God do for us?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet he filled their houses with good things, and the counsel of the wicked kept away from them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>The righteous shall see it, and shall be glad; and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>If they are not prostrated because of their stubbornness, then their remnant shall be consumed with fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>Make now an agreement with God, and offer to him of your good crops.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Receive the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>If you shall repent before God, you shall be built up; if you shall put away iniquity from your dwelling place;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>Then you shall lay up silver like dust, and the gold of Ophir as the sand of the valley.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>Yea, God shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>For then you shall lift up your face to God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And you shall make your prayer to him, and he shall hear you, and you shall fulfill your vows.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light shall shine upon your ways.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>For it is said, He who humbles himself shall be exalted; and he who is meek shall be saved.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/22-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>The innocent man shall be spared wherever he is, and he shall escape by the purity of his hands.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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