Job - Chapter 22 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Is there anyone, even the wisest, who could ever be of use to God?
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 22:1)}
  • 3. Does your doing right benefit God, or does your being good help him at all?
  • 4. It is not because you stand in awe of God that he reprimands you and brings you to trial.
  • 5. No, it's because you have sinned so much; it's because of all the evil you do.
  • 6. To make a brother repay you the money he owed, you took away his clothes and left him nothing to wear.
  • 7. You refused water to those who were tired, and refused to feed those who were hungry.
  • 8. You used your power and your position to take over the whole land.
  • 9. You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.
  • 10. So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.
  • 11. It has grown so dark that you cannot see, and a flood overwhelms you.
  • 12. Doesn't God live in the highest heavens and look down on the stars, even though they are high?
  • 13. And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds---how can he judge us?"
  • 14. You think the thick clouds keep him from seeing, as he walks on the dome of the sky.
  • 15. Are you determined to walk in the paths that evil people have always followed?
  • 16. Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.
  • 17. These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.
  • 18. And yet it was God who made them prosperous--- I can't understand the thoughts of the wicked.
  • 19. Good people are glad and the innocent laugh when they see the wicked punished.
  • 20. All that the wicked own is destroyed, and fire burns up anything that is left.
  • 21. Now, Job, make peace with God and stop treating him like an enemy; if you do, then he will bless you.
  • 22. Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.
  • 23. Yes, you must humbly return to God and put an end to all the evil that is done in your house.
  • 24. Throw away your gold; dump your finest gold in the dry stream bed.
  • 25. Let Almighty God be your gold, and let him be silver, piled high for you.
  • 26. Then you will always trust in God and find that he is the source of your joy.
  • 27. When you pray, he will answer you, and you will keep the vows you made.
  • 28. You will succeed in all you do, and light will shine on your path.
  • 29. God brings down the proud and saves the humble.
  • 30. He will rescue you if you are innocent, if what you do is right.
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