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12 For they will turn and run
    when they see your arrows aimed at them.

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12 You will make them turn their backs(A)
    when you aim at them with drawn bow.

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12 If a person does not repent,
    God[a] will sharpen his sword;
    he will bend and string his bow.
13 He will prepare his deadly weapons
    and shoot his flaming arrows.

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  1. 7:12 Hebrew he.

12 If he does not relent,(A)
    he[a] will sharpen his sword;(B)
    he will bend and string his bow.(C)
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
    he makes ready his flaming arrows.(D)

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  1. Psalm 7:12 Or If anyone does not repent, / God

40 You placed my foot on their necks.
    I have destroyed all who hated me.

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40 You made my enemies turn their backs(A) in flight,
    and I destroyed(B) my foes.

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12 He has drawn his bow
    and made me the target for his arrows.

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12 He drew his bow(A)
    and made me the target(B) for his arrows.(C)

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But God himself will shoot them with his arrows,
    suddenly striking them down.

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But God will shoot them with his arrows;
    they will suddenly be struck down.

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My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help.
    This I know: God is on my side!

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Then my enemies will turn back(A)
    when I call for help.(B)
    By this I will know that God is for me.(C)

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10 You make us retreat from our enemies
    and allow those who hate us to plunder our land.

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10 You made us retreat(A) before the enemy,
    and our adversaries have plundered(B) us.

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My enemies retreated;
    they staggered and died when you appeared.

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My enemies turn back;
    they stumble and perish before you.

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12 “I was living quietly until he shattered me.
    He took me by the neck and broke me in pieces.
Then he set me up as his target,
13     and now his archers surround me.
His arrows pierce me without mercy.
    The ground is wet with my blood.[a]

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  1. 16:13 Hebrew my gall.

12 All was well with me, but he shattered me;
    he seized me by the neck and crushed me.(A)
He has made me his target;(B)
13     his archers surround me.(C)
Without pity, he pierces(D) my kidneys
    and spills my gall on the ground.

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20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
    O watcher of all humanity?
Why make me your target?
    Am I a burden to you?[a]

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  1. 7:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads target, so that I am a burden to myself?

20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(A)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(B)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](C)

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  1. Job 7:20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.

14 He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies;
    great bolts of lightning flashed, and they were confused.

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14 He shot his arrows(A) and scattered the enemy,
    with great bolts of lightning(B) he routed them.(C)

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