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13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
    and his upper rooms by injustice;
who makes his neighbours work for nothing,
    and does not give them their wages;
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a spacious house
    with large upper rooms’,
and who cuts out windows for it,
    panelling it with cedar,
    and painting it with vermilion.
15 Are you a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and do justice and righteousness?
    Then it was well with him.

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