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14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
    with spacious upper rooms’,
who cuts out windows for it,
    panelling it with cedar
    and (A)painting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and (B)do justice and righteousness?
    (C)Then it was well with him.

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14 He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace(A)
    with spacious upper rooms.’
So he makes large windows in it,
    panels it with cedar(B)
    and decorates it in red.(C)

15 “Does it make you a king
    to have more and more cedar?
Did not your father have food and drink?
    He did what was right and just,(D)
    so all went well(E) with him.

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14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

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