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and the honourable man dwelt in it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore snares <i>are</i> round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Or darkness, <i>that</i> thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><i>Is</i> not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thick clouds <i>are</i> a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet he filled their houses with good <i>things</i>: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The righteous see <i>it</i>, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the <i>gold</i> of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When <i>men</i> are cast down, then thou shalt say, <i>There is</i> lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/job/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div align="center"><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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