8 then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
Job 31:8
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Psalms 109:10–12
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Job 31:37–39
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Job 31:21–23
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate, 22 then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket. 23 For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
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Job 31:28–30
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Job 4:7–9
7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? 8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they ar…
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