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13 They spend their days in prosperity.
    In an instant they go down to Sheol.[a]
14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us,
    for we don’t want to know about your ways.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

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  1. 21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

13 They spend their years in prosperity(A)
    and go down to the grave(B) in peace.[a](C)
14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!(D)
    We have no desire to know your ways.(E)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’(F)

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  1. Job 21:13 Or in an instant