Job 8:12-17 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

12. and if the water dries up,they die sooner than grass.

13. Such is the hopeless futureof all who turn from God

14. and trust in something as frailas a spider's web—

15. they take hold and fallbecause it's so flimsy.

16. Sinful people are like plantswith spreading roots and plentyof sun and water.

17. They wrap their roots tightlyaround rocks.

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