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Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
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Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.
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They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
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They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
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Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.
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And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
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Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
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All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
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For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.
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If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
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But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,