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They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
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They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues range over 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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Such are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
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All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
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For all day long I have been plagued, and am punished every morning.
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If I had said, "I will talk on in this way," I would have been untrue to the circle of your children.
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But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
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until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.
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Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.