Job 22:12-20

New Century Version

¹² “God is in the highest part of heaven.
    See how high the highest stars are!
¹³ But you ask, ‘What does God know?
    Can he judge us through the dark clouds?
¹⁴ Thick clouds cover him so he cannot see us
    as he walks around high up in the sky.’
¹⁵ Are you going to stay on the old path
    where evil people walk?
¹⁶ They were carried away before their time was up,
    and their foundations were washed away by a flood.
¹⁷ They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    The Almighty can do nothing to us.’
¹⁸ But it was God who filled their houses with good things.
    Their way of thinking is different from mine.

¹⁹ “Good people can watch and be glad;
    the innocent can laugh at them and say,
²⁰ ‘Surely our enemies are destroyed,
    and fire burns up their wealth.’