Even when I remember, I am afraid, and fear taketh hold on my flesh.

Wherefore do the wicked [a]live, and wax old, and grow in wealth?

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:7 Job proveth against his adversaries that God punisheth not straightways the wicked, but oft times giveth them long life, and prosperity: so that we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eyes.

When I think about this, I am terrified;(A)
    trembling seizes my body.(B)
Why do the wicked live on,
    growing old and increasing in power?(C)
They see their children established around them,
    their offspring before their eyes.(D)

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