11. Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12. Is not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!
13. And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14. Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15. Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16. Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood!
17. Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!
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 deride them.
20. Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: by this good shall come to thee.
22. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23. If thou shalt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.