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Those who sow iniquity reap calamity,(A)
    and the rod used in anger will fail.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Agricultural metaphors express the failure of malicious actions. In the first line, bad actions are seeds yielding trouble. In the second line, “the rod” is a flail used to beat grains as in Is 28:27.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,(A)
    and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.(B)

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He who sows iniquity will reap (A)sorrow,[a]
And the rod of his anger will fail.

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  1. Proverbs 22:8 trouble