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“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys [both] the blameless and the wicked.’
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“When [His] scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks at the despair of the innocent.
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“The earth is given into the hands of the wicked;
He covers the faces of its judges [so that they are blind to justice].
If it is not He, then who is it [that is responsible for all this injustice]?