Parallel Bible results for "job 22:12-20"

Job 22:12-20

12 Isn't God in the heights of heaven; see how high the topmost stars are?

12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!

13 You say: "What does God know? Can he judge through thick clouds?

13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?

14 Clouds conceal him so he can't see while he walks on heaven's rim."

14 Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’

15 Will you keep the ancient way traveled by sinful persons,

15 Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?

16 who were snatched prematurely when a river flooded their foundations,

16 They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.

17 who say to God, "Turn away from us; what can the Almighty do to us?"

17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’

18 Yet he filled their houses with good things; a sinner's logic is beyond me.

18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

19 The righteous see and rejoice; the innocent mock them:

19 The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,

20 our enemies are certainly cut off; fire will devour what's left of them.

20 ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’