it shall: Job 18:5, Job 20:5, Job 21:30; Psalms 11:5; Isaiah 57:21; Malachi 3:18; Matthew 13:49-50; John 5:29
neither: Psalms 55:23; Isaiah 30:13; 2 Peter 2:3
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Ecclesiastes 8:13
Ecclesiastes 8:13
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