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Is it gain, "" That you make your ways perfect?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Because of your reverence "" Does He reason [with] you? He enters with you into judgment:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Is your wickedness not abundant? And there is no end to your iniquities.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, "" And you strip off the garments of the naked.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You do not cause the weary to drink water, "" And you withhold bread from the hungry.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As for the man of arm—he has the earth, "" And the accepted of face—he dwells in it.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have sent widows away empty, "" And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore snares [are] all around you, "" And sudden fear troubles you.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Or darkness—you do not see, "" And abundance of waters covers you.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Is God not high [in] the heavens? And see the summit of the stars, "" That they are high.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you have said, How has God known? Does He judge through thickness?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, "" And He does not see, "" And He habitually walks [above] the circle of the heavens.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Do you observe the path of the age, "" That men of iniquity have trodden,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Who have been cut down unexpectedly? A flood is poured out on their foundation.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Those saying to God, Turn aside from us, "" And what does the Mighty One do to them?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And He has filled their houses [with] good (And the counsel of the wicked "" Has been far from me).<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The righteous see and they rejoice, "" And the innocent mocks at them:<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Surely our substance has not been cut off, "" And fire has consumed their excellence.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace, "" Thereby your increase [is] good.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Please receive a law from His mouth, "" And set His sayings in your heart.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If you return to the Mighty you are built up, "" You put iniquity far from your tents.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So as to set a defense on the dust, "" And a covering on a rock of the valleys.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the Mighty has been your defense, "" And silver [is] strength to you.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For then you delight yourself on the Mighty, "" And lift up your face to God,<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You make supplication to Him, "" And He hears you, "" And you complete your vows.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And you decree a saying, "" And it is established to you, "" And light has shone on your ways.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For they have made low, "" And you say, Lift up. And He saves the bowed down of eyes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He delivers the one [who is] not innocent, "" Indeed, he has been delivered "" By the cleanness of your hands.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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