Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life[a] your hope?(A)
Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?(B)
In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble(C) reap the same.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 4:6 Lit ways

Should not your piety be your confidence(A)
    and your blameless(B) ways your hope?

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(C)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(D)
As I have observed,(E) those who plow evil(F)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(G)

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