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21 I am blameless.
    I don’t respect myself.
    I despise my life.

22 “It is all the same.
    Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly,
    he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
    He covers the faces of its judges.
    If not he, then who is it?

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21 “I am blameless, yet I do not know myself;
I despise my life.
22 It is all one thing;
Therefore I say, (A)‘He destroys the blameless and the wicked.’
23 If the scourge slays suddenly,
He laughs at the plight of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
He covers the faces of its judges.
If it is not He, who else could it be?

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