Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA
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20 If I'm innocent, my mouth condemns me; I have integrity; but God declares me perverse.
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Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.
21 I'm blameless, yet don't know myself; I reject my life.
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“Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
22 It's all the same; therefore, I say God destroys the blameless and the sinners.
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It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23 If calamity suddenly kills, he mocks at the slaying of innocents.
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When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
24 The earth is handed over to the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges. If not God, then who does?
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When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?
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