9. You sent widows away empty-handed,and the resources of orphans are destroyed.
10. Therefore snares are round about you,sudden terror makes you panic,
11. Or darkness—you cannot see!A deluge of waters covers you.
12. Does not God, in the heights of the heavens,behold the top of the stars, high though they are?
13. Yet you say, “What does God know?Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14. Clouds hide him so that he cannot seeas he walks around the circuit of the heavens!”
15. Do you indeed keep to the ancient waytrodden by the worthless?
16. They were snatched before their time;their foundations a river swept away.
17. They said to God, “Let us alone!”and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”
18. Yet he had filled their houses with good things.The designs of the wicked are far from me!
19. The just look on and are glad,and the innocent deride them:
20. “Truly our enemies are destroyed,and what was left to them, fire has consumed!”
21. Settle with him and have peace.That way good shall come to you:
22. Receive instruction from his mouth,and place his words in your heart.
23. If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;if you put iniquity far from your tent,
24. And treat raw gold as dust,the fine gold of Ophir as pebbles in the wadi,