Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest[a] been destroyed?(A)
In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble(B) reap the same.(C)
They perish at a single blast(D) from God
and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:7 Or the upright, or those with integrity

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(A)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(B)
As I have observed,(C) those who plow evil(D)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(E)
At the breath of God(F) they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.(G)

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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.

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

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“Remember now, (A)who ever perished being innocent?
Or where were the upright ever cut off?
Even as I have seen,
(B)Those who plow iniquity
And sow trouble reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish,
And by the breath of His anger they are consumed.

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