Job 4:6-12 New Century Version (NCV)

6. You should have confidence because you respect God;you should have hope because you are innocent.

7. “Remember that the innocent will not die;honest people will never be destroyed.

8. I have noticed that people who plow eviland plant trouble, harvest it.

9. God’s breath destroys them,and a blast of his anger kills them.

10. Lions may roar and growl,but when the teeth of a strong lion are broken,

11. that lion dies of hunger.The cubs of the mother lion are scattered.

12. “A word was brought to me in secret,and my ears heard a whisper of it.

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