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“But now it’s your turn,
    and you’re the one who is worn out![a]
Now it’s striking you,
    and you’re dismayed!

“Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn’t it?
    The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn’t it?
Now please think:
    Who has ever perished when they’re innocent?
        Where have the upright been destroyed?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:5 Or impatient

But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(A)
    it strikes(B) you, and you are dismayed.(C)
Should not your piety be your confidence(D)
    and your blameless(E) ways your hope?

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(F)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(G)

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