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10 If a man arrives to take his relative’s remains out of the house for burial and he calls back into the darkened house, “Is anyone else with you?” the only survivor will respond, “No.” The relative will cut the survivor off: “Quiet! Not another word! We mustn’t mention the name of the Eternal One.”

11 Look: the Eternal gives the order,
    and the great house is smashed to pieces, and the little house crumbles.
12 Do horses gallop over big boulders?
    Does a person plow such rocks with a team of oxen?
But you have somehow managed to make justice poisonous
    and turned the sweet fruits of righteousness into bitterness—

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