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19 Could all your wealth[a]
    or all your mighty efforts
    keep you from distress?
20 Do not long for the cover of night,
    for that is when people will be destroyed.[b]
21 Be on guard! Turn back from evil,
    for God sent this suffering
    to keep you from a life of evil.

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Footnotes

  1. 36:19 Or Could all your cries for help.
  2. 36:16-20 The meaning of the Hebrew in this passage is uncertain.

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