Holy Scripture
Job 21:16
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“Ver. 16. But because their good things are not in their hand, may their counsel be far from me. 54. He 'holds his good things in his hand,' who in despising temporal things, forces them under the dominion of the mind. For whoever loves them over much, subjects himself more to them, than them to himself. For many of th…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16For their good things were in their hands, But he regards not the works of the ungodly.
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14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.
15What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? And what profit is there that we should approach him?
— Job 21:16 —
17Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, And destruction shall come upon them, And pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, Or as dust which the storm has taken up.