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For 1deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
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"You say, 2'Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
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Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does 3Sheol those who have sinned.
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The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are 4no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like 5a tree.'
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"They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.
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Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.
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He gives them security, and they are supported, and his 6eyes are upon their ways.
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They are exalted 7a little while, and then 8are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are 9cut off like the heads of grain.
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If it is 10not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?"