Job 15:28-30

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²⁸they will live in desolate cities,
    in houses that no one should inhabit,
    houses destined to become heaps of ruins;
²⁹they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure,
    nor will they strike root in the earth;^[a]^(A)
³⁰they will not escape from darkness;
    the flame will dry up their shoots,
    and their blossom^[b] will be swept away by the wind.^(B)