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18 Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm? Not at all!

19 “‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’ But I say that God should punish the man who sins, not his children! Let him feel the penalty himself. 20 Yes, let him be destroyed for his iniquity. Let him drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.

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18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(A) swept away(B) by a gale?(C)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’(D)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!(E)
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction;(F)
    let them drink(G) the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.(H)

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