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“Stop and think! Do the innocent die?
    When have the upright been destroyed?
My experience shows that those who plant trouble
    and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
A breath from God destroys them.
    They vanish in a blast of his anger.
10 The lion roars and the wildcat snarls,
    but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.
11 The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey,
    and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.

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Now please think:
    Who has ever perished when they’re innocent?
        Where have the upright been destroyed?
It’s been my experience that those who plow the soil of[a] iniquity
    and those who sow the seed of[b] trouble will reap their harvest![c]
They perish by the breath of God;
    they are consumed by the storm that is[d] his anger.[e]

10 “The lioness may roar,
    and the lion cub may growl;
        but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken.
11 Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey;
    that’s when the lion cubs are scattered.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:8 The Heb. lacks the soil of
  2. Job 4:8 The Heb. lacks the seed of
  3. Job 4:8 The Heb. lacks their harvest
  4. Job 4:9 Or the breath of
  5. Job 4:9 Or anger