Job 8:16-18

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¹⁶ The wicked thrive^[a] before the sun,
    and their shoots spread over the garden.^(A)
17 Their roots twine around the stoneheap;
    they live among the rocks.^[b]
18 If they are destroyed from their place,
    then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’^(B)