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Job 22:9

Verse 9 of 30. The 22nd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

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?

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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.