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22-23 “Yet sometimes[a] it seems as though God preserves the rich by his power and restores them to life when anyone else would die. God gives them confidence and strength, and helps them in many ways. 24 But though they are very great now, yet in a moment they shall be gone like all others, cut off like heads of grain. 25 Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me a liar and claim that I am wrong?”

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  1. Job 24:22 Yet sometimes, implied.

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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