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² How long will you talk
    and keep saying nothing?
³ Does God All-Powerful
    stand in the way of justice?
⁴ He made your children pay
    for their sins.
⁵ So why don't you turn to him
⁶     and start living right?
Then he will decide
to rescue and restore you
    to your place of honor.
⁷ Your future will be brighter
    by far than your past.

⁸ Our ancestors were wise,
    so learn from them.
⁹ Our own time has been short,
like a fading shadow,
    and we know very little.
¹⁰ But they will instruct you
    with great understanding.

¹¹ Papyrus reeds grow healthy
    only in a swamp,
¹² and if the water dries up,
    they die sooner than grass.
¹³ Such is the hopeless future
    of all who turn from God
¹⁴ and trust in something as frail
    as a spider's web—
¹⁵ they take hold and fall
    because it's so flimsy.
¹⁶ Sinful people are like plants
with spreading roots
and plenty
    of sun and water.
¹⁷ They wrap their roots tightly
    around rocks.^[b]
18 But once they are pulled up,
    they have no more place;
¹⁹ their life slips away,^[c]
    and other plants grow there.

²⁰ We know God doesn't reject
an innocent person
    or help a sinner.
²¹ And so, he will make you happy
and give you something
    to smile about.
²² But your evil enemies
will be put to shame
    and disappear forever.