4
For through one intelligent person a city can be filled with people, but through a clan of outlaws it becomes desolate.
5
Many such things my eye has seen, and my ear has heard things more striking than these.
6
In an assembly of sinners a fire is kindled, and in a disobedient nation wrath blazes up.
7
He did not forgive the ancient giants who revolted in their might.
8
He did not spare the neighbors of Lot, whom he loathed on account of their arrogance.
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