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,
24. and if you put gold ore in the dust, and the gold of Ophir in the rock of wadis,
25. then Shaddai will be your gold ore and your precious silver.
26. Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and you will expect that God will be good to you.
27. You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.
28. And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.