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Some of them hath he blessed, and exalted: and some of them hath he sanctified, and set near himself: and some of them hath he cursed and brought low, end turned them from their station.
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As the potter's clay is in his hand, to fashion and order it:
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All his ways are according to his ordering: so man is in the hand of him that made him, and he will render to him according to his judgment.
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Good is set against evil, and life against death: so also is the sinner against a just man. And so look upon all the works of the most High. Two and two, and one against another.
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And I awaked last of all, and as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers.