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The Book of Job, Chapter 36, Verse 11

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He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
King James Version
If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
American Standard Version
If they hearken and serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
New English Translation
If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.
World English Bible
If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
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But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
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They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.
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He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
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Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.
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But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
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Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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Will he esteem thy riches? [no], not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
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Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.