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15 Job, you must not continue to turn against God.
    That is the way that evil people lived long ago.
16 Those people died before they should have done.
    A great flood of water took them away.
    They had no safe place to stand.[a]
17 They said to God, “Leave us alone!”
    They thought that Almighty God could not hurt them.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:16 Long ago, a flood of water destroyed people who had turned against God. See Genesis 6:5-22.

15 Will you keep to the old path
    that the wicked(A) have trod?(B)
16 They were carried off before their time,(C)
    their foundations(D) washed away by a flood.(E)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’(F)

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