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22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God,
since[a] he himself[b] judges high ones?
23 This one dies in full prosperity,[c]
completely[d] at ease and secure.
24 His vats are full with milk
and the marrow of his bones is moist.
25 Yet[e] another dies with a bitter inner self[f]
and has not tasted prosperity.
26 They lie down together in the dust,
and maggots cover them.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:22 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 21:22 Emphatic personal pronoun
  3. Job 21:23 Literally “in the vigor of his prosperity”
  4. Job 21:23 Literally “all of him”
  5. Job 21:25 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 21:25 Or “soul”