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Job 22

¹Is there anyone, even the wisest, who could ever be of use to God?

³Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?

⁴It is not because you stand in awe of God that he reprimands you and brings you to trial.

⁵No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.

⁶To make a brother repay you the money he owed, you took away his clothes and left him nothing to wear.

⁷You refused water to those who were tired, and refused to feed those who were hungry.

⁸You used your power and your position to take over the whole land.

⁹You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.

¹⁰So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.

¹¹It has grown so dark that you cannot see, and a flood overwhelms you.

¹²Doesn't God live in the highest heavens and look down on the stars, even though they are high?

¹³And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds---how can he judge us?"

¹⁴You think the thick clouds keep him from seeing, as he walks on the dome of the sky.

¹⁵Are you determined to walk in the paths that evil people have always followed?

¹⁶Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.

¹⁷These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

¹⁸And yet it was God who made them prosperous--- I can't understand the thoughts of the wicked.

¹⁹Good people are glad and the innocent laugh when they see the wicked punished.

²⁰All that the wicked own is destroyed, and fire burns up anything that is left.

²¹Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.

²²Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.

²³Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.

²⁴Throw away your gold; dump your finest gold in the dry stream bed.

²⁵Let Almighty God be your gold, and let him be silver, piled high for you.

²⁶Then you will always trust in God and find that he is the source of your joy.

²⁷When you pray, he will answer you, and you will keep the vows you made.

²⁸You will succeed in all you do, and light will shine on your path.

²⁹God brings down the proud and saves the humble.

³⁰He will rescue you if you are innocent, if what you do is right.