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And the land belongs to the man of power,[a]
and the favored[b] lives in it.
You have sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms of orphans were crushed.
10 Therefore trapping nets are all around you,
and panic suddenly terrifies you,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:8 Literally “man of power for him”
  2. Job 22:8 Literally “lifted up of face”

though you were a powerful man, owning land(A)
    an honored man,(B) living on it.(C)
And you sent widows(D) away empty-handed(E)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(F)
10 That is why snares(G) are all around you,(H)
    why sudden peril terrifies you,(I)

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