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He gets little or no rest; he struggles in his sleep as he did by day. He is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battlefield.
7
At the moment he reaches safety he wakes up, astonished that his fears were groundless.
8
To all creatures, human and animal, but to sinners seven times more,
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come death and bloodshed and strife and sword, calamities and famine and ruin and plague.
10
All these were created for the wicked, and on their account the flood came.
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