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Job 4:5-8
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5 But now when trouble strikes, you faint and are broken.

6 “At such a time as this should not trust in God still be your confidence? Shouldn’t you believe that God will care for those who are good?[a] 7-8 Stop and think! Have you ever known a truly good and innocent person who was punished? Experience teaches that it is those who sow sin and trouble who harvest the same.

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  1. Job 4:6 that God will care for those who are good? Literally, “the integrity of your ways, your hope.”
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Job 4:5-7
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5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(A)
    it strikes(B) you, and you are dismayed.(C)
6 Should not your piety be your confidence(D)
    and your blameless(E) ways your hope?

7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(F)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(G)

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