Nu este oare frica de Dumnezeu încrederea ta,
    iar curăţia căilor tale nu este ea nădejdea ta?

Gândeşte-te, te rog! A pierit vreodată un om nevinovat?
    Sau au fost vreodată cei drepţi nimiciţi?
Aşa cum am văzut eu, cei care ară răutatea
    şi seamănă necazul, le culeg roadele.

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Should not your piety be your confidence(A)
    and your blameless(B) ways your hope?

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(C)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(D)
As I have observed,(E) those who plow evil(F)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(G)

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Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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