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Job 5:5-7
Contemporary English Version
Job 5:5-7
Contemporary English Version
5 Then hungry and greedy people
gobble up their crops
and grab their wealth.[a]
6 Our suffering isn't caused
by the failure of crops;
7 it's all part of life,
like sparks shooting skyward.
Footnotes
- 5.5 wealth: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.
Contemporary English Version (CEV)
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