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² "Does God need our help?
    Even the wisest of us is not really useful to him.
³ Does your living right benefit him?
    Does God All-Powerful gain anything if you follow him?
⁴ Why does God blame and punish you?
    Is it because you worship him?
⁵ No, it is because you sin so much.
    You never stop sinning.
⁶ Maybe to guarantee loans you took things from people for no reason.
    Maybe you took a poor man's clothes to make sure he paid you back.^[a]
7 Maybe you failed to give water or food
    to people who were tired or hungry.
⁸ You have a lot of farmland,
    and people respect you.
⁹ But maybe you sent widows away without giving them anything.
    And maybe you took advantage of orphans.
¹⁰ That is why traps are all around you,
    and sudden trouble makes you afraid.
¹¹ That is why it is so dark you cannot see,
    and why a flood of water covers you.

¹² "God lives in the highest part of heaven
    and looks down on the highest stars.
¹³ But you might say, ‘What does God know?
    Can he see through the dark clouds to judge us?
¹⁴ Thick clouds hide us from his eyes,
    so he cannot see us as he walks around the edge of the sky.'

¹⁵ "Job, you are walking on the old path
    that evil people walked on long ago.
¹⁶ They were destroyed before it was their time to die.
    They were washed away by the flood.
¹⁷ They told God, ‘Leave us alone!'
    and said, ‘God All-Powerful cannot do anything to us!'
¹⁸ And it was God who filled their houses with good things.
    No, I would never follow the advice of evil people.
¹⁹ Those who do what is right are happy to see them destroyed.
    The innocent laugh at them and say,
²⁰ ‘Surely our enemies are destroyed!
    Their wealth burned up in the fire!'

²¹ "Now, Job, give yourself to God and make peace with him.
    Do this, and you will get many good things.
²² Accept his teaching.
    Pay attention to what he says.
²³ If you return to God All-Powerful, you will be restored.
    But remove the evil from your house.
²⁴ Think of your gold as nothing but dirt.
    Think of your finest gold as rocks from a stream.
²⁵ And let God All-Powerful be your gold.
    Let him be your pile of silver.
²⁶ Then you will enjoy God All-Powerful,
    and you will look up to him.
²⁷ When you pray, he will hear you.
    And you will be able to do all that you promised him.
²⁸ If you decide to do something, it will be successful.
    And your future will be very bright!
²⁹ When people are brought down and you ask God to help them,
    he will rescue those who have been humbled.
³⁰ Even those who are guilty will be forgiven.
    They will be saved because you did what was right."