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Does God punish you for respecting him?
    Does he bring you into court for this?
No! It is because your evil is without limits
    and your sins have no end.
You took your brothers’ things for a debt they didn’t owe;
    you took clothes from people and left them naked.
You did not give water to tired people,
    and you kept food from the hungry.
You were a powerful man who owned land;
    you were honored and lived in the land.
But you sent widows away empty-handed,
    and you mistreated orphans.
10 That is why traps are all around you
    and sudden danger frightens you.
11 That is why it is so dark you cannot see
    and a flood of water covers you.

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