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17 Their roots grow around a heap of stones.
    They have a strong home among the rocks.
18 But finally, someone pulls those weeds out of the ground.
When that happens,
    nobody knows that the weeds were ever there.
19 People who are like weeds only have that kind of joy.
    When they disappear, other weeds grow in their place.

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17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
    and looks for a place among the stones.
18 But when it is torn from its spot,
    that place disowns(A) it and says, ‘I never saw you.’(B)
19 Surely its life withers(C) away,
    and[a] from the soil other plants grow.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:19 Or Surely all the joy it has / is that