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Job 22:11-21
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Job 22:11-21
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That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.
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“God is so great—higher than the heavens, higher than the farthest stars.
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But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?
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For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’
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“Will you continue on the old paths where evil people have walked?
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They were snatched away in the prime of life, the foundations of their lives washed away.
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For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’
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Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things, so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.
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“The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed, and the innocent will laugh in contempt.
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They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed. The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
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“Submit to God, and you will have peace; then things will go well for you.
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