Resentment(A) kills a fool,
    and envy slays the simple.(B)

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For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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For he says, ‘There is no profit
    in trying to please God.’(A)

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For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

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Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:3 Or you

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

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13 Surely in vain(A) I have kept my heart pure
    and have washed my hands in innocence.(B)

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13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

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20 They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries(A) misuse your name.(B)

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20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

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Therefore I told you these things long ago;
    before they happened I announced(A) them to you
so that you could not say,
    ‘My images brought them about;(B)
    my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’

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I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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You[a] live in the midst of deception;(A)
    in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

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17 We will certainly do everything we said we would:(A) We will burn incense(B) to the Queen of Heaven(C) and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials(D) did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.(E) At that time we had plenty of food(F) and were well off and suffered no harm.(G)

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17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

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