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The Book of Job, Chapter 22, Verse 17

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Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
King James Version
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
American Standard Version
Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?
New English Translation
They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
World English Bible
who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
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Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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The righteous see [it], and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
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Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
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Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
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If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
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Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
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Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
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For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
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Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.