Parallel Search for 'Job 22:12-20' - NAS and KJV

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"Is God not in the height of heaven? Look also at the highest stars, how high they are!

Job 22:12

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

"But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?

Job 22:13

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

'Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; And He walks on the vault of heaven.'

Job 22:14

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

"Will you keep to the ancient path Which wicked people have walked,

Job 22:15

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

Job 22:16

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

"They said to God, 'Go away from us!' And 'What can the Almighty do to them?'

Job 22:17

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

"Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the advice of the wicked is far from me.

Job 22:18

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

"The righteous see and are glad, And the innocent mock them, saying,

Job 22:19

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

'Truly our enemies are eliminated, And fire has consumed their abundance.'

Job 22:20

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

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