OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 17

Job 22:17

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who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’

and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

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Job 22:17 in context

Job 22:14–20

14

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.

He walks on the vault of the sky.’

15

Will you keep the old way,

which wicked men have trodden,

16

who were snatched away before their time,

whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

17
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who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’

and, ‘What can the Almighty do for 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 ridicule them,

20

saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.

The fire has consumed their remnant.’

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