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16 who were snatched away before their time,[a]
whose foundation was washed away by a current?
17 Those who said to God, ‘Turn away from us,’
and ‘What can Shaddai do to us?’
18 Yet[b] he himself[c] filled up their houses with good things,
but[d] the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:16 Literally “and not time”
  2. Job 22:18 Hebrew “And”
  3. Job 22:18 Emphatic personal pronoun
  4. Job 22:18 Hebrew “and”

16 They were carried off before their time,(A)
    their foundations(B) washed away by a flood.(C)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’(D)
18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,(E)
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(F)

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