21 Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life. 22 It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ 23 When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Job 9:21–23
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