11 (A)If they listen and serve him,
    they (B)complete their days in prosperity,
    and their years in pleasantness.

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13 Now therefore (A)mend your ways and your deeds, (B)and obey the voice of the Lord your God, (C)and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.

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23 But this command I gave them: (A)‘Obey my voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (C)And walk in all the way that I command you, (D)that it may be well with you.’

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30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you (A)in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice.

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By faith (A)Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place (B)that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

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19 (A)If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;

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(A)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
    (B)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
    and mourning I shall never see.’

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(A)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (B)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (C)a day of slaughter.

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17 But (A)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the (B)standard of teaching to which you were committed,

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12 And the Lord blessed (A)the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had (B)14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

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23 If you (A)return to the Almighty you will be (B)built up;
    if you (C)remove injustice far from your tents,

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21 (A)“Agree with God, and (B)be at peace;
    thereby good will come to you.

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11 They send out their (A)little boys like a flock,
    and their children dance.

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(A)It is the same for all, since (B)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 (C)swears is as he who shuns an oath. This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that (D)the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and (E)madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil

13 “If you (A)prepare your heart,
    you will (B)stretch out your hands toward him.
14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
    and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
15 Surely then you will (C)lift up your face without (D)blemish;
    you will be secure and will not fear.
16 You will (E)forget your misery;
    you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
17 And your life will be (F)brighter than the noonday;
    its darkness will be like the morning.
18 And you will feel secure, because there is hope;
    you will look around and (G)take your rest in security.
19 You will (H)lie down, and none will make you afraid;
    many will (I)court your favor.

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