Parallel Bible results for "job 22:8-18"

Job 22:8-18

8 A strong person owns the land. A privileged person lives in it.

8 though you were a powerful man, owning land— an honored man, living on it.

9 You send widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans are broken.

9 And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.

10 That is why traps are all around you and great fear suddenly grips you.

10 That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,

11 [That is why] darkness surrounds you and you cannot see and a flood of water covers you.

11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

12 "Isn't God high above in the heavens? Look how high the highest stars are!

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

13 You ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge [anything] from behind a dark cloud?

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

14 Thick clouds surround him so that he cannot see. He walks above the clouds.'

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

15 "Are you following the old path that wicked people have taken?

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

16 They are snatched up before their time. A river washes their foundation away.

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

17 They told God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do for us?'

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

18 Yet, he filled their homes with good things. (The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.)

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