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Job 22:17

Verse 17 of 30. The 22nd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

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?’

18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

19The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

20saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’

21“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

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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.