Job 22:5-16
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Is not your wickedness great?
Are not your sins endless?
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You demanded security from your brothers for no reason;
you stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked.
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You gave no water to the weary
and you withheld food from the hungry,
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though you were a powerful man, owning land—
an honored man, living on it.
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And you sent widows away empty-handed
and broke the strength of the fatherless.
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That is why snares are all around you,
why sudden peril terrifies you,
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why it is so dark you cannot see,
and why a flood of water covers you.
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“Is not God in the heights of heaven?
And see how lofty are the highest stars!
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Yet you say, ‘What does God know?
Does he judge through such darkness?
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Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us
as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’
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Will you keep to the old path
that evil men have trod?
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They were carried off before their time,
their foundations washed away by a flood.