a land where bread(A) will not be scarce and you will lack nothing;(B) a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.(C)

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A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

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a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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19 (A)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(B)For dust you are,
And (C)to dust you shall return.”

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12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips;(A)
    I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.(B)

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12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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12 I have not departed from the (A)commandment of His lips;
(B)I have treasured the words of His mouth
More than my [a]necessary food.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 23:12 Lit. appointed portion

15 wine(A) that gladdens human hearts,
    oil(B) to make their faces shine,
    and bread that sustains(C) their hearts.

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15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

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15 And (A)wine that makes glad the heart of man,
Oil to make his face shine,
And bread which strengthens man’s heart.

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21 To show partiality(A) is not good(B)
    yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.(C)

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21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

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21 (A)To [a]show partiality is not good,
(B)Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

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  1. Proverbs 28:21 Lit. recognize faces

14     The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;(A)
they will not die in their dungeon,
    nor will they lack bread.(B)

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14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

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14 The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed,
(A)That he should not die in the pit,
And that his bread should not fail.

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14 and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt,(A) where we will not see war or hear the trumpet(B) or be hungry for bread,’(C)

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14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

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14 saying, ‘No, but we will go to the land of (A)Egypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell’—

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