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⁴ Does he correct you and take you to court
because of your piety?^(C1)5 Isn’t your wickedness abundant
and aren’t your iniquities endless?⁶ For you took collateral^(C1) from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.⁷ You gave no water to the thirsty
and withheld food from the famished,^(C1)8 while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.⁹ You sent widows away empty-handed,
and the strength of the fatherless^(C1) was^(F1) crushed.¹⁰ Therefore snares surround you,
and sudden dread terrifies^(C1) you,¹¹ or darkness, so you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.^(C1)

¹² Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!¹³ Yet you say, “What does God know?
Can he judge through total darkness?^(C1)14 Clouds^(C1) veil him so that he cannot see,
as he walks on the circle of the sky.”¹⁵ Will you continue on the ancient path
that wicked men have walked?¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time,
and their foundations^(C1) were washed away by a river.¹⁷ They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?” ^(F1)(C1)18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!¹⁹ The righteous see this and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,^(C1)20 “Surely our opponents are destroyed,
and fire has consumed what they left behind.”^(C1)

²¹ Come to terms with God and be at peace;^(C1)
in this way^(F1) good will come to you.²² Receive instruction from his mouth,^(C1)
and place his sayings^(C2) in your heart.²³ If you return^(C1) to the Almighty, you will be renewed.
If you banish injustice from your tent²⁴ and consign your gold to the dust,
the gold of Ophir^(C1) to the stones in the wadis,²⁵ the Almighty will be your gold
and your finest silver.²⁶ Then you will delight^(C1) in the Almighty
and lift up your face to God.^(C2)27 You will pray to him, and he will hear you,^(C1)
and you will fulfill your vows.²⁸ When you make a decision, it will be carried out,^(F1)
and light will shine on your ways.^(C1)29 When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”
God will save the humble.^(F1)(C1)30 He will even rescue the guilty one,
who will be rescued by the purity of your hands.^(C1)