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10 How terrible it will be for those who make unfair laws,
    and those who write laws that make life hard for people.
They are not fair to the poor,
    and they rob my people of their rights.
They allow people to steal from widows
    and to take from orphans what really belongs to them.
How will you explain the things you have done?
    What will you do when your destruction comes from far away?
Where will you run for help?
    Where will you hide your riches then?

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10 Woe(A) to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,(B)
to deprive(C) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(D)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.(E)
What will you do on the day of reckoning,(F)
    when disaster(G) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(H)
    Where will you leave your riches?

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