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16 Men who were snatched away before their time, whose foundations were poured out like a stream [during the flood]?

17 They said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for or to us?

18 Yet He filled their houses with good [things]. But the counsel of the ungodly is far from me.

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16 They were carried off before their time,(A)
    their foundations(B) washed away by a flood.(C)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’(D)
18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,(E)
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(F)

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