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Those who do what's right are quickly perfected and live a long life in a short span of time.
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They are whisked away from the wickedness that surrounds them because their whole beings are pleasing to the Lord. People around them see this, but they don't understand. It doesn't sink in
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that favor and mercy rest upon God's chosen ones, and that God watches over his holy ones.
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So the dead who did what's right will condemn the ungodly who are still alive, and someone who dies young will condemn the old person who has lived many years but hasn't done what is right.
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People will see the death of the wise, but they won't understand the Lord's purposes for them, nor to what end the Lord kept them safe.
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Instead, they will laugh at what they see. In the end, however, the Lord will have the last laugh on them.
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Then they will be no better than mutilated corpses, a scandal to the rest of the dead forever. The Lord will crush them and leave them lying there speechless. He will shake them from their very foundations. They will waste away in agony. Their memory will be wiped out.
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They will cower when their sins are counted up. Their lawless deeds will witness against them and convict them.