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I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
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Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.
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"With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
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with the pure thou dost show thyself pure, and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
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Thou dost deliver a humble people, but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.