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Job 22:13

Verse 13 of 30. The 22nd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

15Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

17who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.