Job 22:9-19

9 And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
10 That is why snares are all around you, why sudden peril terrifies you,
11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!
13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
14 Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’
15 Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?
16 They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?’
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 their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,

Cross References 24

  • 1. Job 29:13; Job 31:16; Psalms 146:9
  • 2. Job 24:3,21; Isaiah 10:2; Luke 1:53
  • 3. S ver 7; S Job 6:27; S Isaiah 1:17
  • 4. S Job 18:9
  • 5. S Job 10:3
  • 6. S Job 15:21
  • 7. S Job 5:14
  • 8. S Genesis 7:23; Job 36:28; Job 38:34,37; Psalms 69:1-2; Psalms 124:4-5; Isaiah 58:10-11; Lamentations 3:54
  • 9. S Job 11:8; S Job 16:19
  • 10. ver 14; Psalms 10:11; Psalms 59:7; Psalms 64:5; Psalms 73:11; Psalms 94:7; Isaiah 29:15; Ezekiel 9:9; Zephaniah 1:12
  • 11. Psalms 139:11; Ezekiel 8:12; Ephesians 6:12
  • 12. Job 26:9; Psalms 97:2; Psalms 105:39
  • 13. S ver 13; S 2 Kings 21:16
  • 14. Job 37:18; Psalms 18:11; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22; Jeremiah 23:23-24
  • 15. Job 23:10; Job 34:36
  • 16. Job 34:8; Psalms 1:1; Psalms 50:18
  • 17. S Job 15:32
  • 18. S Job 4:19
  • 19. S Genesis 7:23; Job 14:19; Matthew 7:26-27
  • 20. Job 21:15
  • 21. S Job 12:6
  • 22. S Job 21:16
  • 23. Psalms 5:11; Psalms 9:2; Psalms 32:11; Psalms 58:10; Psalms 64:10; Psalms 97:12; Psalms 107:42
  • 24. Job 21:3; Psalms 52:6
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