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22 The same thing happens to good people and to wicked people.
So I say, “God destroys people who are not guilty
    as well as those who are guilty.”
23 When disease comes, people may die suddenly.
    God laughs at good people who suffer like that.
24 A wicked man may have power to rule a nation.
    Then God stops the judges from being fair.
It must be God who does that.
    Who else could it be?

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22 It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’(A)
23 When a scourge(B) brings sudden death,
    he mocks the despair of the innocent.(C)
24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,(D)
    he blindfolds its judges.(E)
    If it is not he, then who is it?(F)

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