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Because there is wrath, beware lest He take you away with one blow; For a large ransom would not help you avoid it.
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Will your riches, Or all the mighty forces, Keep you from distress?
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Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.
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Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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"Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?
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Who has assigned Him His way, Or who has said, 'You have done wrong'?
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"Remember to magnify His work, Of which men have sung.
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Everyone has seen it; Man looks on it from afar.
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"Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
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For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,
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Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.