Job 22:13-30 ▼

13 And you say, ‘What does God know? How can He judge through the dark cloud?

14 Clouds are a covering for Him, so that He does not see, and the vault of the heavens He walks about.’

15 Will you keep the way of old, which men of iniquity have trod,

16 who were seized, and it was not time, their foundation was poured out by a torrent?

17 They said to God, ‘Turn away from us!’ And’What can Shaddai do to us?’

18 Yet He filled their houses with good—and the counsel of the wicked, may it be far from me!

19 The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent one mocks them:

20 ‘Surely our adversaries cut off, and fire consumes their excess.’

21 Make yourself of use now, and be at peace with Him; with these things will come to you good.

22 Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, and set His words in your heart.

23 If you should return to Shaddai, you will be built up, if you put far away from your tent iniquity,

24 and if you set your gold upon the dust, and Ophir among the stones of the torrents,

25 then Shaddai will be your gold, and the silver of heights for you.

26 For then you will take delight in Shaddai, and you will lift to God your face.

27 You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and your vows you will fulfill.

28 Then you will decree a word, and it will stand for you, and upon your paths light will shine.

29 When they have made low, and you say Lift up, then the lowly of eyes He will save.

30 He will deliver the one not innocent, rescuing him by the purity of your hands.”