Job 22:5–16

5  Is not your evil abundant?

There is no end to your iniquities.

6  For you have dexacted pledges of your brothers for nothing

eand stripped the naked of their clothing.

7  You have given no water to the weary to drink,

and you have fwithheld bread from the hungry.

8  gThe man with power possessed the land,

and hthe favored man lived in it.

9  You have isent widows away empty,

and jthe arms of kthe fatherless were crushed.

10  Therefore lsnares are all around you,

and sudden terror overwhelms you,

11  or mdarkness, so that you cannot see,

and a nflood of owater covers you.

12  “Is not God high in the heavens?

See pthe highest stars, how lofty they are!

13  But you say, q‘What does God know?

Can he judge through rthe deep darkness?

14  sThick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,

and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

15  Will you keep to the old way

that wicked men have trod?

16  They were snatched away tbefore their time;

their foundation was washed away.1