Job 24:22

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Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

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He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”