9. You have sent widows away empty,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
10. Therefore snares are all around you,and sudden fear troubles you,
11. or darkness, so that you cannot see;and an abundance of waters covers you.
12. “Is not God in the height of heaven?And see the height of the stars, how high they are!
13. And you say, ‘What does God know?Can He judge through the dark cloud?
14. Thick clouds are His covering, so He cannot see;and He walks above the circle of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the old way,that wicked men have trod?
16. They were cut down before their time;their foundations were swept away by a flood.
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,and the innocent laugh them to scorn:
20. ‘Surely our adversaries are cut down,and the fire consumes their remnant.’
21. “Now acquaint yourself with Him and be at peace;thereby good will come to you.
22. Receive, I pray, the teaching from His mouth,and lay up His words in your heart.
23. If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up;you will put away iniquity far from your tents.
24. Then you will lay up gold as dust,and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.