The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: cast off his flower as the olive.
JOB 15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and
fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
JOB 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their
belly prepareth deceit.
JOB 16:1 Then Job answered and said,
JOB 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye
all.
JOB 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that
thou answerest?
JOB 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's
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