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(A)The tents of robbers are at peace,
    and those who provoke God are secure,
    who bring their god in their hand.[a]

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  1. Job 12:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

14 from men by your hand, O Lord,
    from (A)men of the world whose (B)portion is in this life.[a]
You fill their womb with treasure;[b]
    they are satisfied with (C)children,
    and they leave their abundance to their infants.

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  1. Psalm 17:14 Or from men whose portion in life is of the world
  2. Psalm 17:14 Or As for your treasured ones, you fill their womb

He Will Not Forsake His Saints

[a] Of David.

37 (A)Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
    be not (B)envious of wrongdoers!

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  1. Psalm 37:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each stanza beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like (B)a green laurel tree.[a]

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  1. Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain

(A)For I was (B)envious of the arrogant
    when I saw the (C)prosperity of the wicked.

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They are not in trouble as others are;
    they are not (A)stricken like the rest of mankind.

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that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
    and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction for ever;

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Man Cannot Know God's Ways

14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people (A)to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people (B)to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

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Jeremiah's Complaint

12 (A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
    when I complain to you;
    yet I would plead my case before you.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
    Why do all (C)who are treacherous thrive?
You plant them, and they take root;
    they grow and produce fruit;
(D)you are near in their mouth
    and far from their heart.

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13 You who are (A)of purer eyes than to see evil
    and cannot look at wrong,
(B)why do you idly look at traitors
    and (C)remain silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?

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16 (A)Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,[a]
    and his food is rich.

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  1. Habakkuk 1:16 Hebrew his portion is fat

14 You have said, (A)‘It is vain to serve God. (B)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call (C)the arrogant blessed. (D)Evildoers not only prosper but (E)they put God to the test and they escape.’”

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