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The Book of Job, Chapter 4, Verse 20

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How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
King James Version
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].
American Standard Version
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
New English Translation
They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
World English Bible
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
21
Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: