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14 “How can man be pure?
    How can a person born to a woman be good?
15 God places no trust in his holy ones.
    Even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.
16 And man is even less than they are. He is terrible and rotten.
    He drinks up evil as if it were water!

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14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure,
    or those born of woman,(A) that they could be righteous?(B)
15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,(C)
    if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,(D)
16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,(E)
    who drink up evil(F) like water!(G)

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