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23 God may let them feel confident and self-reliant,
    but his eyes are on their ways.
24 Such people may be prosperous for a little while,
    but then they’re gone.
    They are brought down low and disappear like everything else.[a]
    They wither like heads of grain.

25 “If it isn’t so, who can prove I’m a liar
    and show that my words are worthless?”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:24 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security,(A)
    but his eyes(B) are on their ways.(C)
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;(D)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;(E)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.(F)

25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false
    and reduce my words to nothing?”(G)

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