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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; I do not know myself;
    I loathe my life.(A)
22 It is all one; therefore I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(B)
23 When disaster brings sudden death,
    he mocks at the calamity[a] of the innocent.(C)
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
    he covers the eyes of its judges—
    if it is not he, who then is it?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain