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18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 You say, “God stores up their iniquity for their children.”
    Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction,
    and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.[a]

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  1. Job 21:20 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(A) swept away(B) by a gale?(C)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(D)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(E)
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction;(F)
    let them drink(G) the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.(H)

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