Job 27:12
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12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
why then have you become altogether vain?
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Death Comes to All
9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, (A)how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are (B)in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 (C)It is the same for all, since (D)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who (E)swears is as he who shuns an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that (F)the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and (G)madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil
Ecclesiastes 8:14
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Man Cannot Know God's Ways
14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people (A)to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people (B)to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
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Job 26:2-4
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2 “How you have (A)helped him who has no power!
How you have saved (B)the arm that has no strength!
3 How you have (C)counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breath (D)has come out from you?
Job 21:28-30
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28 For you say, (A)‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is (B)the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
and do you not accept their testimony
30 that (C)the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
Job 21:3
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3 Bear with me, and I will speak,
and after I have spoken, (A)mock on.
Job 19:2-3
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2 “How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
3 These (A)ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
Job 17:2
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2 Surely there are mockers about me,
and my eye dwells on their (A)provocation.
Job 16:3
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3 Shall (A)windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 13:4-9
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4 As for you, (A)you whitewash with lies;
(B)worthless physicians are you all.
5 Oh that you would (C)keep silent,
and it would be your wisdom!
6 Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will you (D)speak falsely for God
and speak (E)deceitfully for him?
8 Will you show partiality toward him?
Will you (F)plead the case for God?
9 Will it be well with you when he (G)searches you out?
Or (H)can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Job 6:25-29
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25 How forceful are upright words!
But what does reproof from you reprove?
26 Do you think that you can reprove words,
when the speech of a despairing man is (A)wind?
27 You would even (B)cast lots over the fatherless,
and bargain over your friend.
28 “But now, be pleased to look at me,
for I will not lie to your face.
29 (C)Please turn; let no injustice be done.
Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
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