Job 22:15-20

15Job, you must not continue to turn against God. That is the way that evil people lived long ago.

16Those people died before they should have done. A great flood of water took them away. They had no safe place to stand.

17They said to God, “Leave us alone!” They thought that Almighty God could not hurt them.

18But it was God who gave them many good things to enjoy. So I cannot accept the ideas of wicked people.

19God punishes wicked people. When righteous people see that happen, they are happy. Good people then laugh at wicked people.

20They say, “God has destroyed our enemies. He has burned all their valuable things in a fire.”