Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Job 22:6-14 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

6. To guarantee payment of a debt,you have taken clothesfrom the poor.

7. And you refused bread and waterto the hungry and thirsty,

8. although you were rich,respected, and powerful.

9. You have turned away widowsand have broken the armsof orphans.

10. That's why you were suddenlytrapped by terror,

11. blinded by darkness,and drowned in a flood.

12. God lives in the heavensabove the highest stars,where he sees everything.

13. Do you think the deep darknesshides you from God?

14. Do thick clouds cover his eyes,as he walks around heaven's domehigh above the earth?