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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?

25 The days of my life are passing very quickly,
    like a fast runner.
None of my days makes me happy.

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23 When a scourge(A) brings sudden death,
    he mocks the despair of the innocent.(B)
24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,(C)
    he blindfolds its judges.(D)
    If it is not he, then who is it?(E)

25 “My days are swifter than a runner;(F)
    they fly away without a glimpse of joy.(G)

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23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

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