12 While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.
13 Such is the destiny[a] of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless(A) will perish.

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  1. Job 8:13 Lit Such are the ways

12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

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35 I have seen a wicked, violent man
well-rooted[a] like a flourishing native tree.(A)
36 Then I passed by and[b] noticed he was gone;
I searched for him, but he could not be found.(B)

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  1. Psalm 37:35 Hb obscure
  2. Psalm 37:36 DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg, Jer; MT reads Then he passed away, and I

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.(A)

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When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

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