They are higher(A) than the heavens(B) above—what can you do?
    They are deeper than the depths below(C)—what can you know?(D)

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It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

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12 He does not answer(A) when people cry out
    because of the arrogance(B) of the wicked.(C)

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12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

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he tells them what they have done—
    that they have sinned arrogantly.(A)

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Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

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“Would you discredit my justice?(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?(B)

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Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

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The kings(A) of the earth rise up
    and the rulers band together
    against the Lord and against his anointed,(B) saying,
“Let us break their chains(C)
    and throw off their shackles.”(D)

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The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

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Their mouths lay claim to heaven,
    and their tongues take possession of the earth.

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They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

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Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.(A)’”

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Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

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30 There is no wisdom,(A) no insight, no plan
    that can succeed against the Lord.(B)

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30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

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16 The Lord says,
    “The women of Zion(A) are haughty,
walking along with outstretched necks,(B)
    flirting with their eyes,
strutting along with swaying hips,
    with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

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16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

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“Woe to those who quarrel(A) with their Maker,(B)
    those who are nothing but potsherds(C)
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(D)
    ‘What are you making?’(E)
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?(F)

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Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

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