Job 22  Christian Standard Bible

⁴ Does he correct you and take you to court
because of your piety?^(B)
5 Isn’t your wickedness abundant
and aren’t your iniquities endless?
⁶ For you took collateral^(C) from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
⁷ You gave no water to the thirsty
and withheld food from the famished,^(D)
8 while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.
⁹ You sent widows away empty-handed,
and the strength of the fatherless^(E) was^[a] crushed.
¹⁰ Therefore snares surround you,
and sudden dread terrifies^(F) you,
¹¹ or darkness, so you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.^(G)

¹² Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!
¹³ Yet you say, “What does God know?
Can he judge through total darkness?^(H)
14 Clouds^(I) veil him so that he cannot see,
as he walks on the circle of the sky.”
¹⁵ Will you continue on the ancient path
that wicked men have walked?
¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time,
and their foundations^(J) were washed away by a river.
¹⁷ They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?” ^[b](K)
18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
¹⁹ The righteous see this and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,^(L)
20 “Surely our opponents are destroyed,
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”^(M)

²¹ Come to terms with God and be at peace;^(N)
in this way^[c] good will come to you.
²² Receive instruction from his mouth,^(O)
and place his sayings^(P) in your heart.
²³ If you return^(Q) to the Almighty, you will be renewed.
If you banish injustice from your tent
²⁴ and consign your gold to the dust,
the gold of Ophir^(R) to the stones in the wadis,
²⁵ the Almighty will be your gold
and your finest silver.
²⁶ Then you will delight^(S) in the Almighty
and lift up your face to God.^(T)
27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you,^(U)
and you will fulfill your vows.
²⁸ When you make a decision, it will be carried out,^[d]
and light will shine on your ways.^(V)
29 When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”
God will save the humble.^[e](W)
30 He will even rescue the guilty one,
who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.^(X)