16 Who (A)were cut down before their time,
Whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
17 (B)They said to God, ‘Depart from us!
What can the Almighty do to [a]them?’
18 Yet He filled their houses with good things;
But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:17 LXX, Syr. us

16 They were carried off before their time,(A)
    their foundations(B) washed away by a flood.(C)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’(D)
18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,(E)
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(F)

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