Job 8:13-22

13 That's what happens to all who forget God - all their hopes come to nothing.
14 They hang their life from one thin thread, they hitch their fate to a spider web.
15 One jiggle and the thread breaks, one jab and the web collapses.
16 Or they're like weeds springing up in the sunshine, invading the garden,
17 Spreading everywhere, overtaking the flowers, getting a foothold even in the rocks.
18 But when the gardener rips them out by the roots, the garden doesn't miss them one bit.
19 The sooner the godless are gone, the better; then good plants can grow in their place.
20 "There's no way that God will reject a good person, and there is no way he'll help a bad one.
21 God will let you laugh again; you'll raise the roof with shouts of joy,
22 With your enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed."
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