12. “Is not God high in the heavens?See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13. But you say, ‘What does God know?Can he judge through the deep darkness?
14. Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the old waythat wicked men have trod?
16. They were snatched away before their time;their foundation was washed away.
17. They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
18. Yet he filled their houses with good things—but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19. The righteous see it and are glad;the innocent one mocks at them,
20. saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,and what they left the fire has consumed.’
21. “Agree with God, and be at peace;thereby good will come to you.
22. Receive instruction from his mouth,and lay up his words in your heart.
23. If you return to the Almighty you will be built up;if you remove injustice far from your tents,
24. if you lay gold in the dust,and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
25. then the Almighty will be your goldand your precious silver.
26. For then you will delight yourself in the Almightyand lift up your face to God.
27. You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,and you will pay your vows.
28. You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,and light will shine on your ways.
29. For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;but he saves the lowly.