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21 Be careful! Don’t turn to evil,
    because you have chosen evil instead of suffering.[a]

22 El does great things by his power.
    Is there any teacher like him?
23 Who can tell him which way he should go?
    Who can say to him, ‘You did wrong’?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 36:21 Hebrew meaning of verses 17–21 uncertain. The first two words of verse 18 (in Hebrew) were added to the end of verse 17 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.

21 Beware of turning to evil,(A)
    which you seem to prefer to affliction.(B)

22 “God is exalted in his power.(C)
    Who is a teacher like him?(D)
23 Who has prescribed his ways(E) for him,(F)
    or said to him, ‘You have done wrong’?(G)

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