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32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
    speak, for I desire to justify you.

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32 If you have anything to say, answer me;(A)
    speak up, for I want to vindicate you.(B)

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Far be it from me to say that you are right;
    until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.(A)

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I will never admit you are in the right;
    till I die, I will not deny my integrity.(A)

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Is not your wickedness great?
    There is no end to your iniquities.(A)
For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason
    and stripped the naked of their clothing.(B)
You have given no water to the weary to drink,
    and you have withheld bread from the hungry.(C)
The powerful possess the land,
    and the favored live in it.
You have sent widows away empty-handed,
    and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.9 Gk Syr Tg Vg: Heb were crushed

Is not your wickedness great?
    Are not your sins(A) endless?(B)
You demanded security(C) from your relatives for no reason;(D)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(E)
You gave no water(F) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,(G)
though you were a powerful man, owning land(H)
    an honored man,(I) living on it.(J)
And you sent widows(K) away empty-handed(L)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(M)

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27 “Oh, I know your thoughts
    and your schemes to wrong me.

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27 “I know full well what you are thinking,
    the schemes by which you would wrong me.

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But you are doing away with the fear of God
    and hindering meditation before God.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
    and you choose the tongue of the crafty.(A)

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But you even undermine piety
    and hinder devotion to God.(A)
Your sin(B) prompts your mouth;(C)
    you adopt the tongue of the crafty.(D)

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