🌪️WEB · Job 22:12

What does Job 22:12 mean?

"“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!"

— Job 22:12 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

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or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

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Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

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