7:18a–b

Verse 7:18 is a Jewish way to emphasize 7:17. It does this by stating that the opposites of 7:17a–b do not happen.

cannot bear…cannot bear: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as cannot is more literally “not able.”

Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:

does not

-or-

is not possible

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