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16 “Look, everything the wicked touch has turned to gold! But I refuse even to deal with people like that. 17 Yet the wicked get away with it every time. They never have trouble, and God skips them when he distributes his sorrows and anger. 18 Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm? Not at all!

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16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(A)

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(B)
    How often does calamity(C) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(D)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff(E) swept away(F) by a gale?(G)

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