Job 11:7–20

⁷Can you discover the limits and bounds

of the greatness and power of God?

⁸The sky is no limit for God,

but it lies beyond your reach.

God knows the world of the dead,

but you do not know it.

⁹God’s greatness is broader than the earth,

wider than the sea.

¹⁰If God arrests you and brings you to trial,

who is there to stop him?

¹¹God knows which people are worthless;

he sees all their evil deeds.

¹²Stupid people will start being wise

when wild donkeys are born tame.

¹³Put your heart right, Job. Reach out to God.

¹⁴Put away evil and wrong from your home.

¹⁵Then face the world again, firm and courageous.

¹⁶Then all your troubles will fade from your memory,

like floods that are past and remembered no more.

¹⁷Your life will be brighter than sunshine at noon,

and life’s darkest hours will shine like the dawn.

¹⁸You will live secure and full of hope;

God will protect you and give you rest.

¹⁹You won’t be afraid of your enemies;

many people will ask you for help.

²⁰But the wicked will look round in despair

and find that there is no way to escape.

Their one hope is that death will come.