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17 They said to God, “Let us alone!”
    and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”
18 Yet he had filled their houses with good things.
    The designs of the wicked are far from me![a](A)
19 The just look on and are glad,
    and the innocent deride them:[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 22:18 The second part of the verse repeats 21:16.
  2. 22:19 Them: the wicked. Eliphaz obviously thinks that the just can be pleased by God’s punishment of the wicked. Such pleasure at the downfall of the wicked is expressed elsewhere, e.g., Ps 58:11; 63:12.