| Common English Bible (CEB) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 16 You boasted more traders than the heavens have stars. The locust sheds its skin and flies away. | 16 You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away. |
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