10. Therefore trapping nets are all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you,
11. or it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
12. “Is not God in the height of the heavens? But see how lofty are the highest stars.
13. And you ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?
14. Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the way of old that the people of mischief have trod,
16. who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was washed away by a current?
17. Those who said to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can Shaddai do to us?’
18. Yet he himself filled up their houses with good things, but the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me.
19. The righteous see, and they rejoice, but the innocent one mocks at them.
20. Surely our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.
21. “Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; in this way, good will come to you.
22. Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.
23. If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove wickedness from your tent,