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not even if you gouge out my eyes and burn my entrails.
31
I am not so old and cowardly as not to be young in reason on behalf of piety.
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Therefore get your torture wheels ready and fan the fire more vehemently!
33
I do not so pity my old age as to break the ancestral law by my own act.
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I will not play false to you, O law that trained me, nor will I renounce you, beloved self-control.
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.