^29 (A)Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

²⁰ Then Job arose, ^(A)tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he ^(B)fell to the ground and worshiped.

⁶ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; ^(A)neither shall men lament for them, ^(B)cut themselves, nor ^(C)make themselves bald for them.

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⁴⁰ And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this ^[a]perverse generation.”

³⁶ Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

^4 (A)A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of ^[a]the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.

³⁹ But He answered and said to them, “An evil and ^(A)adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ^(A)“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from ^(B)the wrath to come?