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19 He will deliver you from trouble six times,
    and on the seventh[a] no evil will touch you.
20 In time of famine he will rescue you from death,
    and in wartime from the thrust of the sword.
21 “You will be shielded from the scourge of the tongue,
    and you will not fear calamity when it looms.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:19 Six times . . . on the seventh: a literary device for indicating a very large number or even a totality (see Prov 6:16f; 30:15f; Am 1:3-13).