hy way be unspotted?
22:4. Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
22:5. And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?
22:6. For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause,
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
22:7. Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread
from the hungry.
22:8. In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being
the most mighty thou holdest it.
22:9. Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless
thou hast broken in pieces.
22:10. Therefore art thou surrounded with shares, and sudden fear
troubleth thee.
22:11. And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and
that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing
waters?
22:12. Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is
elevated above the height of the stars?
22:13. And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were
through a mist.
22:14. The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things,
and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
22:15. Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have
trodden?
22:16. Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath
overthrown their foundation.
22:17. Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as
if he could do nothing:
22:18. Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of
thinking be far from me.
22:19. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall
laugh them to scorn.
22:20. Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the
remnants of them?
22:21. Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou
shalt have the best fruits.
22:22. Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
22:23. If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and
shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
22:24. He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
22:25. And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall
be heaped together for thee.
22:26. Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt
lift up thy face to God.
22:27. Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay
vows.
22:28. Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light
shall shine in thy ways.
22:29. For he that hat
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