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² "How long will you say such things?
    Your words are no more than wind.
³ God does not twist justice;
    the Almighty does not make wrong what is right.
⁴ Your children sinned against God,
    and he punished them for their sins.
⁵ But you should ask God for help
    and pray to the Almighty for mercy.
⁶ If you are good and honest,
    he will stand up for you
    and bring you back where you belong.
⁷ Where you began will seem unimportant,
    because your future will be so successful.

⁸ "Ask old people;
    find out what their ancestors learned,
⁹ because we were only born yesterday and know nothing.
    Our days on earth are only a shadow.
¹⁰ Those people will teach you and tell you
    and speak about what they know.
¹¹ Papyrus plants cannot grow where there is no swamp,
    and reeds cannot grow tall without water.
¹² While they are still growing and not yet cut,
    they will dry up quicker than grass.
¹³ That is what will happen to those who forget God;
    the hope of the wicked will be gone.
¹⁴ What they hope in is easily broken;
    what they trust is like a spider's web.
¹⁵ They lean on the spider's web, but it breaks.
    They grab it, but it does not hold up.
¹⁶ They are like well-watered plants in the sunshine
    that spread their roots all through the garden.
¹⁷ They wrap their roots around a pile of rocks
    and look for a place among the stones.
¹⁸ But if a plant is torn from its place,
    then that place rejects it and says, ‘I never saw you.'
¹⁹ Now joy has gone away;
    other plants grow up from the same dirt.

²⁰ "Surely God does not reject the innocent
    or give strength to those who do evil.
²¹ God will yet fill your mouth with laughter
    and your lips with shouts of joy.
²² Your enemies will be covered with shame,
    and the tents of the wicked will be gone."